Marja Väisälä

Marja Väisälä
Born(1916-08-09)9 August 1916
Helsinki, Finland
Died21 December 2011(2011-12-21) (aged 95)
Turku, Finland
NationalityFinnish
Occupation(s)teacher, astronomer

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.

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