Lynn Margulis was born March 5th, 1938 into a Jewish family in Chicago. She attended Hyde Park Academy High School where she was seen as a bad student. She attended and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1957. She continued her education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison earning a master's degree in zoology, and her Ph.D in genetics from University of California, Berkeley in 1965. In between her undergraduate and graduate studies she met Carl Sagan and they married soon after. She was a professor at Boston University until 1988 where she was named distinguished university professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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For the next twenty years he spent his time managing the gardens, conducting occasional lectures, and exploring several times, notably in Morocco. As his health declined he resigned from Kew garden though he continued his scientific work until his death in 1911.
Thomas Robert Malthus was born in Guildford, England in 1766 to a wealthy family. His father had him home schooled until he grew old enough to attend Jesus College in Cambridge where he studied a diverse field of topics. He graduated and earned a master of arts in 1791 and became a fellow at the institution. He became a professor of political economy at the East India Company College. He earned the position in 1805 and held the professorship for the remainder of his quiet and comfortable life. Fourteen years after, he was elected a fellow to the Royal Society which later led to him becoming a member of the Political Economy Club. In this organization he met and befriended David Ricardo and the two held the “Malthus-Ricardo Debates.” These were not debates in so much as intellectual discussion on their respective economic theories, though competition between the two …show more content…
As the resources starts to diminish so too does the population until it reaches a point at which the world can sustain it. He ultimately published his piece six times, each edition adding pertinent new points. His publications were controversial and resulted in the “Malthusian controversy”, as several of his fellow members of the Political Economy Club thought his theories to be too pessimistic and unrealistic; some others, however, agreed to the grand scheme of his thought, members like Ricardo. He produced numerous other pamphlets which all contained a similar idea. Malthus died of heart disease unexpectedly in 1834. His reputation as an economist had faded after attacks from younger members of the Political Economy Club, which he helped
Margulis was thought to be a radical by her colleges who subscribed to traditional Darwinian paradigms …show more content…
For the next twenty years he spent his time managing the gardens, conducting occasional lectures, and exploring several times, notably in Morocco. As his health declined he resigned from Kew garden though he continued his scientific work until his death in 1911.
Thomas Robert Malthus was born in Guildford, England in 1766 to a wealthy family. His father had him home schooled until he grew old enough to attend Jesus College in Cambridge where he studied a diverse field of topics. He graduated and earned a master of arts in 1791 and became a fellow at the institution. He became a professor of political economy at the East India Company College. He earned the position in 1805 and held the professorship for the remainder of his quiet and comfortable life. Fourteen years after, he was elected a fellow to the Royal Society which later led to him becoming a member of the Political Economy Club. In this organization he met and befriended David Ricardo and the two held the “Malthus-Ricardo Debates.” These were not debates in so much as intellectual discussion on their respective economic theories, though competition between the two …show more content…
As the resources starts to diminish so too does the population until it reaches a point at which the world can sustain it. He ultimately published his piece six times, each edition adding pertinent new points. His publications were controversial and resulted in the “Malthusian controversy”, as several of his fellow members of the Political Economy Club thought his theories to be too pessimistic and unrealistic; some others, however, agreed to the grand scheme of his thought, members like Ricardo. He produced numerous other pamphlets which all contained a similar idea. Malthus died of heart disease unexpectedly in 1834. His reputation as an economist had faded after attacks from younger members of the Political Economy Club, which he helped