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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. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology .
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.
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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.
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Jul 21, 2004 · Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Edward B. Lewis. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995. Born: 20 May 1918, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA. Died: 21 July 2004, Pasadena, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA.
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"
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.
Nov 11, 2007 · Edward B. Lewis studied embryonic development in Drosophila, including the discovery of the cis-trans test for recessive genes, and the identification of the bithorax complex and its role in development in Drosophila.
