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Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014)

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Sohaila Rastan is executive director of biomedical research at Action on Hearing Loss in London, UK. She was Mary Lyon's second PhD student at the MRC Radiobiology Unit in Harwell, UK.,
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Rastan, S. Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014). Nature 518, 36 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518036a

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