Mary F. Lyon

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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Influence

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Resistance

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What Wikipedia says

Mary Frances Lyon (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.

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