This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980. - Source.

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Yuri credited his cat, Asya, with helping him crack the Mayan code (he noticed her teaching kittens to hunt, and got the idea that glyphs weren't letters but syllables). He listed her on his academic papers and was livid when publishers took her name off. When publishers asked for a photograph, he'd send this one so that the cat was front and center. He did not like it when they cropped her out, either.

Fittingly, his efforts were well received by the Mexican government and he received one of their highest honors and a statue in the Yucatan (home of the Mayan Civiliation)- a statue which depicts him holding his cat.

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