By Giuseppe Pino (Mondadori Publishers) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Vladimir Nabokov was not only a talented novelist  — he was also an astute scientist.

Yes, he may have written classic novels like Lolita and Pale Fire — and guess what his day job was?  He was curator of lepidoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Here’s an article detailing the importance of his scientific work on butterflies.

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