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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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About this person
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Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1916 to 2011 · aged 95
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