Born: 5 March 1938, United States
Died: 5 November 2011
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Lynn Sagan, Lynn Alexander
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1938 Mar. 5 Born, Chicago, Ill.
1957 A.B., liberal arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Married Carl Sagan (divorced 1964)
1960 M.S., zoology and genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis.
1963-1966 Research associate, lecturer, biology coordinator for Peace Corps Columbia project, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
1965 Ph.D., genetics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.
1966-1988 Adjunct assistant professor (1966-1967), assistant professor (1967-1971), associate professor (1971-1977), professor (1977-1986), university professor (1986-1988), Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
1967 Married Thomas Margulis (divorced 1980)
1982 Published with Karlene V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth. New York, N.Y.: W.H. Freeman and Company
1988-2011 Distinguished university professor of botany (1988-1993), distinguished university professor of biology (1993-1997), distinguished university professor of geosciences (1997-2011), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Mass.
1992 Published with Clifford Matthews and Aaron Haselton Environmental Evolution: Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
1995 Published with Dorion Sagan What is Life? New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster
1999 Awarded National Medal of Science
2002 Published with Michael Dolan Early Life: Evolution on the Precambrian Earth 2nd edition. Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Published with Dorion Sagan Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books
2005-2006 President, Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society
2006 Published with Brian Hawthorne and James Corner Ian McHarg: Conversations with Students/Dwelling in Nature. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Architectural Press
2007 Published Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing. Published with Dorion Sagan Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the nature of nature. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing. Published with Eduardo Punset Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing
2009 Awarded Darwin-Wallace Medal of the Linnean Society of London
2011 Published with Celeste A. Asikainen and Wolfgang E. Krumbein Chimeras and Consciousness: Evolution of the Sensory Self. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
2011 Nov. 22 Died, Amherst, Mass.