# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marja-vaisala
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:34:42.126Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marja-vaisala"
name: "Marja Väisälä"
slug: "marja-vaisala"
description: "Marja Ilmatar Väisälä was a Finnish teacher of mathematics and natural sciences, who in 1950 founded a private school in Swakopmund in what is now Namibia, where she taught the children of Finnish missionaries. She also discovered two asteroids, 1718 Namibia and 2437 Amnestia, at the Turku Observatory in 1942."
tagline: "Finnish astronomer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-05-09"
deathDate: "2011-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.86
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           5.934737333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Marja Ilmatar Väisälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjy_V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Marjy Väisälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marja_V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Marja Väisälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marja_Ilmatar_V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Marja Ilmatar Väisälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marja_V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Marja Väisälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marja_V%C3%A4is%C3%A4l%C3%A4"
    title: "Marja Väisälä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B5%D5%A1_%D5%8E%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%BD%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B5%D5%A1"
    title: "Մարյա Վյայսյալյա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3849419"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump