Biologist who revolutionized our view of early cell evolution.
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Lake, J. Lynn Margulis (1938–2011). Nature 480, 458 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480458a
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Anders Goksoyr
I met with Lynn Margulis in 1995 when she visited the University of Bergen and my late father Jostein Goksøyr (1922-2000), and remember her with great fondness. Actually, Goksøyr?s paper ?Evolution of eucaryotic cells? in Nature vol. 214, 1161 (1967) was published more or less simultaneously and independently of Lynn Margulis? work, and described the same fundamental theory of endosymbiosis. Although published in Nature, the paper appears to have been forgotten by history, but not by Lynn Margulis who acknowledged the independent contribution of Jostein Goksøyr in her seminars at the University of
Bergen in 1995. And while my father was busy developing microbiology in Bergen, it was certainly Lynn Margulis who fought to establish the theory as textbook wisdom.
Ralph Giorno
With all due respect to Lynn Margulis, Ivan Wallin (1883 – 1969) was one of the first to posit that mitochondria originated from bacteria. He certainly got no respect.
Charles Packer
The author must have meant the U. of Chicago's Eckhart Hall as the place where Margulis met Carl Sagan, not Ruth Eckerd Hall, which is in Clearwater, Florida.