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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Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper - https://brady-haran.squarespace.com/s...

And here is the published version - https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990A...

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