Mary F. Lyon

This article is about the 20th century British geneticist. For the 19th century American educator, see Mary Lyon.

Mary Lyon
FRS
Lyon in 2010
Born
Mary Frances Lyon

(1925-05-15)15 May 1925[1]
Norwich, England
Died25 December 2014(2014-12-25) (aged 89)[3]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forX-chromosome inactivation[4]
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Doctoral advisorRonald Fisher
Doctoral studentsElizabeth Fisher[2]

Mary Frances Lyon FRS[5][6] (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014)[3] was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

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  2. ^ Fisher, Elizabeth Mary Claire (1987). Microcloning and molecular mapping of the mouse X chromosome. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/66999. OCLC 1103939662. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.769180. Free access icon
  3. ^ a b "Mary Lyon, geneticist – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  4. ^ Lyon, M. F. (1998). "X-chromosome inactivation: A repeat hypothesis". Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 80 (1–4): 133–7. doi:10.1159/000014969. PMID 9678347. S2CID 46853044.
  5. ^ Fisher, Elizabeth; Rastan, Sohaila (2024). "Mary Frances Lyon. 15 May 1925 — 25 December 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 77.
  6. ^ "EC/1973/19: Lyon, Mary Frances". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019.
  7. ^ Rastan, Sohaila (2015). "Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014) Grande dame of mouse genetics". Nature. 518 (7537): 36. doi:10.1038/518036a. PMID 25652989.
  8. ^ "Formal portrait of Mary Lyon by Godfrey Argent". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019.
  9. ^ Mary Lyon Entry in Who named it?. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  10. ^ Oakes, Elizabeth H. Lyon, Mary Frances. International Encyclopedia of Women Scientists. New York, NY. Facts on File, Inc. 2002. Facts on File, Inc. Science Online. factsonfile.com.
  11. ^ Lyon, M. F. (1961). "Gene action in the X-chromosome of the mouse (Mus musculus L.)". Nature. 190 (4773): 372–3. Bibcode:1961Natur.190..372L. doi:10.1038/190372a0. PMID 13764598. S2CID 4146768.
  12. ^ Brockdorff, Neil (2017). "Polycomb complexes in X chromosome inactivation". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 372 (1733): 20170021. doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0021. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 5627167. PMID 28947664.
  13. ^ Heard, Edith; Brockdorff, Neil (2017). "Preface: X-chromosome inactivation and Mary Lyon". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 372 (1733): 20160353. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0353. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 5627156. PMID 28947653. Open access icon