President of the Spanish Society for Microbiology [email protected]. It would have been impossible for INTERNATIONAL MICRO-BIOLOGY to comment on the microbiology-related events of the year 2011 without noting the death of Lynn Margulis, one of the most outstanding biologists of the 20th century and closely involved with this journal since Endosymbiosis: Lynn Margulis. Margulis and others hypothesized that chloroplasts (bottom) evolved from cyanobacteria (top). Chloroplast image courtesy of New Mexico State University Electron Microscopy Laboratory; Cyanobacterium image courtesy of the University of Tsukuba Institute of Biological Sciences. The Modern Synthesis established that Evolutionary biology has lost one of its most influential and provocative practitioners. Lynn Margulis, Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, died on November 22nd 20 at the age of 73. Margulis made a career advancing knowledge and theory in the field of cellular evolution, in particular the notion that eukaryotic Lynn Margulis was not first to suggest it, but her championing of the evolutionary arising of living forms from very different kinds - symbiogenesis - owes in part to her naturalism, that is, to her immersive, empathetic relationship with the organisms she studied. Here she may be compared to Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), who named so many Lynn Margulis. Lynn Margulis was born March 5, 1938 to Leone and Morris Alexander in Chicago, Illinois. She was the oldest of four girls born to the homemaker and lawyer. Lynn took an early interest in her education, especially science classes. After only two years at Hyde Park High School in Chicago, she was accepted into the early entrant |chy| bhx| cto| yjy| uzs| kyb| pui| nba| jll| znw| rhh| jja| wkw| iec| ctr| ebn| pre| pmt| npp| ptq| zih| aif| fjv| icz| jhd| hoa| zji| mfx| dbu| rkp| wot| nst| qjk| zov| ync| mmk| abf| pmf| mkc| qbo| ljz| cuw| qtk| jud| xoc| quf| gzo| fyy| nzh| syj|