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Lynn Margulis. Margulis, who died on November 22 at 73 of a cerebral hemorrhage, was a renegade who didn’t mince words. And she revolutionized biology more than once.
A champion of the microorganism throughout her career, Lynn Margulis wrote about cells in ways that changed the way most scientists view evolution. Rather than embrace what is known as the belief ...
Lynn Margulis, 73, a rebel within the realm of science, whose determined advocacy of her ideas about how new species arise helped change evolutionary biology, died Nov. 22 at her home in Amherst ...
Lynn Margulis is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges a central tenet of ...
"Lynn Margulis fits this description, I think, extraordinarily well," he said. "Lynn is a scientist who was viewed skeptically for many years for the theory which she expounded." Bacow explained that ...
Lynn Margulis, who has died aged 73, was a microbiologist whose work on the origin of cells transformed the study of evolution; with James Lovelock, she also developed the "Gaia theory" of Earth ...
AMHERST - Internationally renowned evolutionary biologist and Distinguished University Professor Lynn Margulis died Tuesday at her home here. She was 73. Margulis joined the University of ...
Lynn Margulis, a biologist and professor at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Amherst, has been selected to be the seventh speaker in the Richard E. Snyder Presidential Lecture Series. The topic ...
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, Margulis was one of 12 researchers to receive the 1999 Presidential Medal of Science. "Lynn is one of the premier scientists of the century and ...
A conversation with Lynn Margulis is an effective way to change the way you think about life. Not just your life. All life. Scientists today recognize five groups of life: bacteria, protoctists ...
The American biologist Lynn Margulis has died. She had a stroke last week and never recovered. Born in 1938, she was still active as a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – her ...