the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 1992, recipient of Chancellor's Medal for Distinguished Faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 1995, elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. 1997, elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. 1998, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. 1998, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1999, recipient of the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. 1999, recipient of the National Medal of Science, awarded by President William J. Clinton. 2001, Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 2002–05, Alexander von Humboldt Prize. 2005, elected President of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Profiled in Visionaries: The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders, published in 2007. Founded Sciencewriters Books in 2006 with her son Dorion. Was one of thirteen recipients in 2008 of the Darwin-Wallace Medal, heretofore bestowed every 50 years, by the Linnean Society of London. 2009, speaker at the Biological Evolution Facts and Theories Conference, held at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome aimed at promoting dialogue between evolutionary biology and Christianity. 2010, inductee into the Leonardo da Vinci Society of Thinking at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. 2010, NASA Public Service Award for Astrobiology. 2012, Lynn Margulis Symposium: Celebrating a Life in Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 23–25, 2012 2017, the Journal of Theoretical Biology 434, 1–114 commemorated the 50th anniversary of "The origin of mitosing cells" with a special issue Honorary doctorate from 15 universities. Works Books Margulis, Lynn (1970). Origin of Eukaryotic Cells, Yale University Press, Margulis, Lynn (1982). Early Life, Science Books International, Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan (1986). Origins of Sex : Three Billion Years of Genetic Recombination, Yale University Press, Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan (1987). Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors, HarperCollins, Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan (1991). Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality, Summit Books, Margulis, Lynn, ed. (1991). Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and Morphogenesis, The MIT Press, Margulis, Lynn (1992). Symbiosis in Cell Evolution: Microbial Communities in the Archean and Proterozoic Eons, W.H. Freeman, Sagan, Dorion, and Margulis, Lynn (1993). The Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World, Kendall/Hunt, Margulis, Lynn, Dorion Sagan and Niles Eldredge (1995) What Is Life?, Simon and Schuster, Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan (1997).