Lynn Marguliss

Lynn Margulis born; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011)

She was an American biologist and renowned for her scientific theory on the origin of complex cells, called symbiogenesis. She obtained a bachelor degree from the University of Chicago at 19 years old. She graduated with master's degree in genetics and zoology from the University of Chicago at age 22. While she was working for a doctoral tesis at the University of California , she recived her doctorate at Brandeis University, where she worked during 2 yeats. In 1988 she became Distinguished Professor of Botany, and in 1997, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts .

Margulis conceived her theory on endosymbiosis when she was a junior faculty at Boston University. Her publication "On the Origin of Mitosing Cells" came out in 1967, after it has been rejected by about fifteen journals. Ignored for a decade, her theory that cell organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts were once independent bacteria became accepted after being shown by genetic evidences.

She expanded her idea that symbiosis is one of the major driving forces of evolution.

he was also the principal defender of the five kingdom classification of Robert Whittaker.

She is known as "Science's Unruly Earth Mother" or a scientific "rebel". Margulis was a strong critic of Charles Darwin, she was a Darwinist, but not aneo-Darwinist, a position that caused some arguments. Margulis was member of the US National Academy of Sciences from 1983. For her scientific innovations, President Bill Clinton gave her the National Medal of Science in 1999. The Linnean Society of London awarded her the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008.

I have choosen her apart of her important cientific contributions, because throught history women have been undervalue and the men have been considered greatest.

Lynn Margulis showed that women are same at men.

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