Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
Born
Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer

(1907-02-24)24 February 1907
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died17 May 2004(2004-05-17) (aged 97)
East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Known forThe delivery of the Coelacanth
AwardsHonorary doctorate from Rhodes University
Scientific career
FieldsNatural history, Palaeontology
InstitutionsEast London Museum

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, to the attention of the world.

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