Mary F. Lyon#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2701 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Mary F. Lyon passed away 25 December, 2014.
Positions Held
- 1990 Professor Emeritus
- 1962 - 1987 Head of the Genetics Section of the MRC Radiology Unit at Harwell from 1962 to 1987
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetics
- Theory of X chromosome inactivation
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Received the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
- 2004 Awarded the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
- 1997 Received the Amory Prize
- 1997 Awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine
- 1994 Won the Mauro Baschirotto Award in Human Genetics
- 1984 Won the Royal Medal of the Royal Society
- 1979 Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 1973 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
