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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