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Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology .
Sep 8, 2004 · Ed Lewis, who died on 21 July at the age of 86, is remembered by all who knew him as a brilliant, eccentric and kindly scientist. He was a pioneer in exploring how genes design and build animals.
- Matthew P. Scott, Peter A. Lawrence
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May 16, 2024 · Edward B. Lewis was an American developmental geneticist who, along with geneticists Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the functions that control early embryonic development.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 was awarded jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development".
Jul 22, 2004 · Edward Lewis, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for his studies of gene regulation and development in fruit flies, passed away in 2004. He was a pioneer in the field of experimental genetics and a longtime faculty member of Caltech.
Biographical. Dr. Lewis received the B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and the Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1942. He served to the rank of captain in the United States Army Air Force from 1942-1945 as a meteorologist and oceanographer in the Pacific Theater. He joined the Caltech faculty in 1946 as an ...
Edward B. Lewis died in Pasadena, California on July 21 at the age of 86. Lewis was the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology at California Institute of Technology. He had been at Caltech for most of his scientific life, beginning as a PhD student with Alfred Sturtevant in 1939.
