What is Lynn Alexander's middle name?
Petra
What is Lynn Alexander's full name?
Lynn Petra Alexander
Lynn Alexander nickname(s):
Lynn Margulis, Lynn Margulis Ph.D., Lynn Petra Alexander, Lynn Alexander
Lynn Alexander date of birth:
March 5, 1938
How old was Lynn Alexander when died?
73
Where was Lynn Alexander born?
Chicago, Illinois, USA
When did Lynn Alexander die?
November 22, 2011
Where did Lynn Alexander die?
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Why did Lynn Alexander die?
Stroke
Lynn Alexander body shape:
Average
What color is Lynn Alexander's hair?
Brown - Dark
Is Lynn Alexander gay or straight?
Straight
What is Lynn Alexander's ethnicity?
White
What is Lynn Alexander nationality?
American
Where did Lynn Alexander go to school?
University of Chicago’s Laboratory Schools
Where did Lynn Alexander go to university?
University of Chicago (1957), University of Wisconsin in 1960 with a master’s in genetics and zoology , Ph.D Genetics, University of California at Berkeley (1965)
What is Lynn Alexander's occupation?
Professor of Biology
Lynn Alexander claim to fame:
National Medal of Science by President Clinton in 1999 for her work in evolution
Short Biography
Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist, taxonomist, bacteriologist, protistologist, and botanist, with advanced degrees in zoology and genetics. She was known to the public as a science author, educator, and popularizer, and recognized as the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in biological evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has noted that, "Lynn Margulis’s name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin’s is with evolution." In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei – an event Ernst Mayr called "perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life" – by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria. Margulis was also the co-developer of Gaia theory with the British chemist James Lovelock, proposing that the Earth functions as a single self-regulating system, and was the principal defender and promulgater of the five kingdom classification of Robert Whittaker.