Lynn Margulis

By Shuna Che

  • Born

    Before marrying, her name was Lynn Petra Alexander, she was born in March 5, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois
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    Carl Sagan

    She married astronomer Carl Sagan in 1957 and had two sons, Dorian Sagan, a science writer, and Jeremy Sagan, founder of Sagan Technology.
    Some years after they got divorced

  • Origin of Mitosing Cells article

    after being rejected by about fifteen scientific journals , the theorical paper "On the Origin of Mitosing Cells"​ was accepted by Journal of Theoretical Biology in1967
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    Second Marriage

    She married Thomas N. Margulis, a crystallographer, she got his last name from this marriage and also had a son, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, a lawyer, and a daughter Jennifer Margulis, teacher and author.
    But They divorced in 1980.

  • serious endosymbiotic theorie

    This theorie states that eucayotic cells comes from a symbiotic union of primitive prokaryotic cells.
    some scientists wrote about it time ago, but Lynn proved it in her theorical paper from 1967 and has renown because of it

  • Gaia hyphotesis

    James Lovelock, another scientist, told Lynn about his theory and then they collaborated in the research and in 1973 they published the first paper of it

  • National Medal of Science

    Thanks to her contributions in science, the USA's president, Bill Clinton, awarded her the National Medal of Science

  • Darwin-Wallace Medal

    This medal is awarded every 50 years, she got awarded in 2008 because of the major advances she did in the evolutionary biology

  • Death

    She died in her house in Amherst, Massachusetts, five days after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke