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Yrjö Väisälä
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q3849419 · wikidata
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Marja Väisälä
1916-05-09 – 2011-12-21
Life & Legacy
Marja Ilmatar Väisälä (9 May 1916, Helsinki, Finland – 21 December 2011, Turku) 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.
Occupation & Career
astronomer, teacher, Esperantist
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