Myra Keen

Myra Keen
Born
Angeline Myra Keen

(1905-05-23)May 23, 1905
Colorado Springs, Colorado
DiedJanuary 4, 1986(1986-01-04) (aged 80)
Santa Rosa, California
Alma mater
Occupations

Angeline Myra Keen (1905–1986) was an American malacologist and invertebrate paleontologist. She was an expert on the evolution of marine mollusks with a PhD in psychology. Keen went from being a volunteer, identifying shells at Stanford, and having no formal training in biology or geology, to being one of the world's foremost malacologists. She was called the "First Lady of Malacology".

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