R.Boyle Re:
[NABOKV-L] Top 10 Writers That Deserved The Nobel Prize ...: " Graham Greene, whose praise of
Lolita did so much for Nabokov, never got the Nobel. A member of the
committee was said to have had it in for Greene for personal
reasons."
JM: Probably Nabokov's
shoe-boxful of rejected note-cards (quoted from Alvin Tofler's list,
mentioned in his 1964 interview with Nabokov), informing about
revolutionary Marat's interest in butterflies, didn't convince my
interlocutor.
I was sent a wiki-list of "famous
lepidopterologists," in which Nabokov's name figures together with Princess
Olga of Greece and Camille Saint-Saëns, but there's no reference to Marat.
The caption, itself, is curious linking
"famous" (what?) and "lepidopterology."
I wonder if there are any known conchologists
or Nobel prize winners among such a notorious
crowd.
wiki: Famous lepidopterists
William Stephen Atkinson (1820
–1876)
Jean-Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879)
Bernard d'Abrera (1940–
)
Robert Denno (1946–2008)
Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
Henry Edwards
(entomologist) (1830–1891) English-born actor, writer and butterfly
Gowan
Coningsby Clark (1888-1964)
Edmund Brisco Ford (1901–1988)
Frederick
William Frohawk (1861–1946)
Walter Gieseking (1895–1956)
Frederick DuCane
Godman (1834–1919)
William Jacob Holland, the author of The Moth Book
(1903)[1]
Johann Siegfried Hufnagel (1724–1795)
Julian Jumalon
[2]
Napoleon M. Kheil [3] (1849–1923)
Bernard Kettlewell
(1907–1979)
Michael Majerus (1954–2009)
Vladimir Nabokov
(1899–1977)
L. Hugh Newman (1909–1993)
Princess Olga of Greece
(1903–1997)
Walter Rothschild (1868–1937)
Camille Saint-Saëns
(1835–1921)
Otto Staudinger (1830–1900)
James William Tutt
(1858–1911)
Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965)
Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th
Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1920–1988)
Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko
(1922–2002)