Article ID: CBB001320454

Lynn Margulis (1938--2011) (2012)

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Science progresses mainly through experimentation, but to become useful, experimental results have to be scrutinized, interpreted, and placed on a proper intellectual scaffold. These two activities are not always carried out evenly by the same person. Some scientists become known for their impressive experiments, others for innovative theoretical syntheses. Lynn Margulis, who died on 22 November 2011 at the age of 73, was a striking example of the latter group. She is responsible for the transformative idea that eukaryotic cells evolved by the acquisition and exploitation of other, smaller cells, a process known as endosymbiosis. Accordingly, essential components of eukaryotic cells---the organelles mitochondria and, in photosynthetic cells, plastids---are derived from bacteria that some ancestral cell had ingested. These events are thought to have taken place early in the history of life on Earth.

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Authors & Contributors
Brossard, Dominique
Del Carlo, Dawn
Pope, Barbara Kline
Sullivan, Kathryn D.
Merchant, Paul
Rose, Kathleen M.
Concepts
Women in science
Biographies
Scientists
Science and gender
Astronautics
Space travel; space flight
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Russia
Iran
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Twitter (firm)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Census of Marine Life (1999-2009)
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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