Mary Mason Lyon (/ˈlaɪ.ən/; February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary...
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evidence. Katherine and Sheila Lyon were born in Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., to John and Mary Lyon. The girls were two of four children...
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Mary Frances Lyon FRS (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important...
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Mary Lyon (1797–1849) was a pioneering American educator. Mary Lyon is also the name of: Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014), English geneticist Mary Lyon (writer)...
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Mary Frances Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone GCVO (née Bowes-Lyon; 30 August 1883 – 8 February 1961), was a British aristocrat. She was an elder sister...
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Mount Holyoke College (redirect from Mount Holyoke Lyons)
Prize annually. Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she...
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Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. (August 24, 1853 – February 12, 1935) was an American educator, genealogist, and historian. He was a son of John Tyler, the tenth...
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location): Lônes et coteaux Lyon-Centre (Lyon-Centre) Lyon-Est (Lyon-East) Lyon-Nord (Lyon-North) Lyon-Ouest Lyon-Sud Lyon-Sud-Est Ouest Plateau...
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X-inactivation (redirect from Lyon hypothesis)
X-inactivation (also called Lyonization, after English geneticist Mary Lyon) is a process by which one of the copies of the X chromosome is inactivated...
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Mary Lyon Residence Hall was a three-story student dormitory on Western Campus at Miami University, demolished in 2016. It was a co-ed dormitory and only...
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Mary Lyon is an American columnist, reporter, political commentator, and jeweller. One of the first women to hired at television and radio stations in...
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and Kinghorne, chief of the Clan Lyon. Following the marriage in 1767 of the 9th Earl (John Lyon) to rich heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, the family name was...
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Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from...
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Thomas Lyon (1741–1796). MP for Aberdeen Burghs. Married Mary Wren. Their daughter Charlotte Lyon (died 1871) married Revd Henry George Liddell (died 1872)...
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August 1942 the ship was acquired by the Navy and was renamed the Lyon after Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female...
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver (redirect from Eunice Mary Kennedy)
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver DSG (née Kennedy, July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family. She was...
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Cavendish-Bentinck. He married Mary Pamela McCorquodale (b.1932) on 10 April 1956. They had three children:[citation needed] Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore...
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Lyon is the surname of: A. Laurence Lyon (1934–2006), American music composer Alexander Lyon (disambiguation) Alastair Lyon (born 1979), South African...
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English children's writer and novelist (d. 1844) Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846) Mary Lyon, American women's education pioneer (d. 1849) Marie, Dowager Duchess of...
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1823); Zilpah P. Grant Banister (Ipswich Female Seminary, 1828); and Mary Lyon. Lyon was involved in the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and...
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Mary Lyon Hall Built in 1916 and renovated in 2006, it is named after Mary Lyon (1797–1849), an American pioneer in women's education. In 2012, Mary Lyon...
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Theresa. Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2020, ISBN...
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The family called upon noted women's educator Mary Lyon for assistance in establishing the seminary. Lyon created the first curriculum with the goal that...
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Mary-Jo Wormell (born 1947), better known as Mary Lyons, was a popular British writer of 45 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1983 to 2001. Wormell...
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English Channel. History.com. Retrieved on May 20, 2014. Dahlberg, Time; Ward, Mary Ederle (2009). America's Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude...
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USS Elizabeth C. Stanton (AP-69); USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70); USS Mary Lyon (AP-71); and USS Anne Arundel (AP-76). List of U.S. military vessels named...
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Temple Grandin (redirect from Mary Temple Grandin)
Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock...
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Mary Nell Steenburgen (/ˈstiːnbɜːrdʒən/; born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's...
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biologist Susumu Ohno determined the Barr bodies were X chromosomes. In 1961, Mary Lyon proposed the concept of X-inactivation: when one of the two X chromosomes...
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Bowes-Lyon (born 17 June 1932); married Caroline Mary Viktoria Pike (born 27 September 1940) on 11 April 1966 During World War II, Bowes-Lyon was a member...
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