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Lynn Margulis: Massachusetts Amherst
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Lynn Margulis is an internationally renowned microbiologist, currently Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She had spent a lifetime complementing the Darwinian idea of natural competition with a vision of how organisms cooperate in changing and sustaining life. She is the co-developer (with James Lovelock, British biologist) of the Gaia hypothesis which states that the Earth is a single purposeful living system. This article reprinted from the Utne Reader, March-April 96 no. 74. From Pop!ulation Press vol 2, # 3, Spring 1996.
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Lynn Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983, received from William J. Clinton the Presidential Medal of Science in 1999. The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., announced in 1998 that it will permanently archive her papers. She was a faculty mentor at Boston University for 22 years.
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Lynn Margulis gained her Ph.D. with the Department of Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley (1960-1963). Currently, she is University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her outstanding career has brought her honours from the National Academy of Sciences and from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1997). She ... received the US National Medal of Science (the President William Clinton Presidential Medal of Science) in 1999, and the Alexander von Humboldt Prize (2002-2005).
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Lynn Margulis, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Science. She received a National Medal of Science from President Clinton in 2000.
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Lynn Margulis is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, her Masters of Science at the University of Wisconsin, and her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.
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