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682:, Nutley Hall of Fame. Accessed November 9, 2019. "Geerat J. Vermeij is one of the world's preeminent scientists in ecology, malacology and biology. Born in Holland, he came to America, lived in Nutley and graduated from Nutley High School in the Class of 1965."
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