Judith Merril's birthday

TIL that January 21 was Judith Merril's birthday. I remember so vividly her gig as "The UnDoctor" when she was hosting "Doctor Who" on TVO in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Along with Michael Magee's batshit "Magee and Company," the show was my restorative medicine after a typically awful day at law school.

In the second RC novel, I named a very minor Romulan character "Meril" in honour of Judith.

I wonder how many contemporary SF fans know the extent and scope of her pathbreaking history in science fiction.