Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist
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Lynn Margulis was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin's... Wikipedia
Born: March 5, 1938, Chicago, IL
Died: November 22, 2011 (age 73 years), Amherst, MA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1960–1965), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1957–1960), The University of Chicago (1954–1957), and more
Parents: Morris Alexander and Leona Wise Alexander
Awards: National Medal of Science (1999), William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (1999), and Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008)
Children: Dorion Sagan, Jennifer Margulis, and Jeremy Sagan
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