Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 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. |