Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American evolutionary theorist and biologist, science author, educator, and popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution.
Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin's is with evolution."
In particular, Margulis transformed and fundamentally framed current understanding of the evolution of cells with nuclei – an event Ernst Mayr called "perhaps the most important and dramatic event in the history of life" – by proposing it to have been the result of symbiotic mergers of bacteria.
Margulis was also the co-developer of the Gaia hypothesis with the British chemist James Lovelock, proposing that the Earth functions as a single self-regulating system, and was the principal defender and promulgator of the five kingdom classification of Robert Whittaker.
Throughout her career, Margulis' work could arouse intense objection (one grant application elicited the response, "Your research is crap, do not bother to apply again") and her formative paper, "On the Origin of Mitosing Cells", appeared in 1967 after being rejected by about fifteen journals.
Still a junior faculty member at Boston University at the time, her theory that cell organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts
were once independent bacteria was largely ignored for another decade, becoming widely accepted only after it was powerfully substantiated through genetic evidence.
Margulis was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
President Bill Clinton presented her the National Medal of Science in 1999.
The Linnean Society of London awarded her the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008.
Called "Science's Unruly Earth Mother", a "vindicated heretic", or a scientific "rebel", Margulis was a strong critic of neo-Darwinism.
Her position sparked lifelong debate with leading neo-Darwinian biologists, including Richard Dawkins, George C. Williams, and John Maynard Smith.
Margulis' work on symbiosis and her endosymbiotic theory had important predecessors, going back to the mid-19th century – notably Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Konstantin Mereschkowski, (1890-1957), and Ivan Wallin – and Margulis took the unusual step of not only trying to promote greater recognition for their contributions, but of personally overseeing the first English translation of Kozo-Polyansky's "Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution", which appeared the year before her death.
Many of her major works, particularly those intended for a general readership, were collaboratively written with her son Dorion Sagan.
In 2002, "Discover" magazine recognized Margulis as one of the 50 most important women in science.
Dave Grossman (game developer)
Dave Grossman is an American game programmer and game designer, most known for his work at Telltale Games and early work at LucasArts.
He has also written several children's books, and a book of" guy poetry" called" Ode to the Stuff in the Sink".
Hans Ris
Hans Ris( June 15, 1914 – November 19, 2004) was an American cytologist and pioneer electron microscopist.
His studies of chromosome structure revealed the importance of non-histone proteins, and along with evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, he was one of the first to recognize that blue- green algae were a special type of bacteria.
He coined the term genophore for prokaryote DNA to highlight its differences from the eukaryal chromosome.
Ris was a founding member of the American Society for Cell Biology and received the Distinguished Scientist Award by the Microscopy Society of America in 1983.
Dorion Sagan
Dorion Sagan( born 1959) is an American author, essayist, fiction writer, and theorist from Madison, Wisconsin.
He has written and co-authored books on culture, evolution, and the history and philosophy of science, including" Cosmic Apprentice, Cracking the Aging Code," and" Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel."
His book" Into the Cool," co-authored with Eric D. Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life.
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
He is best known as a science popularizer and communicator.
His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation.
Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.
Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books.
He wrote many popular science books, such as "The Dragons of EdenBroca's Brain" and "Pale Blue Dot", and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series .
The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, "Cosmos" has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries.
The book "Cosmos" was published to accompany the series.
He also wrote the science fiction novel "Contact", the basis for a 1997 film of the same name.
His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.
Sagan advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.
Sagan and his works received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book "The Dragons of Eden", and, regarding "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award, and the Hugo Award.
He married three times and had five children.
After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62, on December 20, 1996.
Mary Horner Lyell
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She was married to the notable British geologist Charles Lyell and assisted him in his scientific work.
She never became widely known in her own right, although it is believed by historians that she likely made major contributions to her husband's work.
David Shute
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She is most well known for her work on the series of" Star Trek" episode novelizations, alongside her husband James Blish, published from 1967 to 1978.
She has been active in preserving, and promoting her husband's work.
Frank Wildhorn
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He is most known for his musical" Jekyll& Hyde", which ran four years on Broadway, and for writing the# 1 International hit song" Where Do Broken Hearts Go" for Whitney Houston.
Christopher Shinn
Christopher Shinn is an American playwright.
His play" Dying City"( 2006) was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and" Where Do We Live"( 2004) won the 2005 Obie Award, Playwriting.

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