The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995
Awarded on: 1995-10-09
"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Edward B. Lewis
Born: 1918-05-20 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist (1918-2004)
Biography
Edward Butts Lewis was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology.