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Marja Väisälä
Finnish astronomer · Finland · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1916 to 2011 · aged 95
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.
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Lived 1916 to 2011 · aged 95