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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 . Early life.
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.
Jul 21, 2004 · 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.
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 ...
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.
Dec 1, 2004 · Remarkably, two distinguished Drosophila geneticists, Edward B. Lewis and Edward Novitski, attended the same high school in Wilkes-Barre at the same time. Their start with Drosophila began when Lewis noticed an advertisement in the journal Science for Drosophila cultures at one dollar each.
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.
Edward B. Lewis was a pioneering geneticist whose work on the common fruitfly began as a high school science project and resulted in his sharing the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Ed was a modest, generous man and a scientist with never-ending curiosity. His science was innovative, groundbreaking and, ultimately, revo-lutionary.
Sep 1, 2004 · Edward B. Lewis died in Pasadena, California, on 21 July at the age of 86. Lewis was the Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology and had been at...
Edward B. Lewis' science is the bridge linking experimental genetics as conducted in the first half of the twentieth century, and the powerful molecular genetic approaches that revolutionized the field in its last quarter.
