Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.
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<a href="https://brady-haran.squarespace.com/s/MerrifieldPaperHandWritten.pdf">Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper</a>
<a href="https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990AJ.....99.1548M">And here is the published version</a>
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