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Categories: 20th-century American women scientists, Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge, Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates, 1925 births, 21st-century American women
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Mary F. Lyon  Mary Frances Lyon  Mary Francis Lyon  Mary Lyon
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Mary Frances Lyon was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon. Wikipedia
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Mary Frances Lyon was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon. Wikipedia
English geneticist Wikipedia Disambiguation
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AWARD RECEIVED
William Allan Award
Canada Gairdner International Award
Royal Medal
Rosenstiel Award
March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
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COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
Ronald Fisher
EDUCATED AT
Girton College, Cambridge
EMPLOYER
University of Edinburgh
FAMILY NAME
Lyon
FIELD OF WORK
genetics
GIVEN NAME
Mary
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academia Europaea
OCCUPATION
biologist
geneticist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Norwich
PLACE OF DEATH
Oxfordshire
SEX OR GENDER
female
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Mary F. Lyon
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Mary F. Lyon
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Mary Frances Lyon, Mary Francis Lyon, Mary Lyon (geneticist)
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Mary Frances Lyon

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