Edward B. Lewis

Edward Lewis
Born
Edward Butts Lewis

May 20, 1918 (1918-05-20)
DiedJuly 21, 2004 (2004-07-22) (aged 86)
Pasadena, California, US
Alma mater
Known forResearch into genetics of the common fruit fly
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
ThesisA genetic and cytological analysis of a tandem duplication and its included loci in Drosophila melanogaster (1942)
Doctoral advisorAlfred Sturtevant
Doctoral studentsMark M. Davis[3]

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.

  1. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995".
  3. ^ Davis, Mark Morris (1981). Programmed DNA rearrangements during differentiation : immunoglobulin class switching (PhD thesis). California Institute of Technology. OCLC 436997013.
  4. ^ Crow, James F; Bender, Welcome (December 2004), "Edward B. Lewis, 1918–2004.", Genetics, vol. 168, no. 4, pp. 1773–1783, doi:10.1093/genetics/168.4.1773, PMC 1448758, PMID 15611154
  5. ^ Duncan, Ian; Celniker, Susan E (2004), "In memoriam: Edward B. Lewis (1918–2004)", Dev. Cell, vol. 7, no. 4 (published October 2004), pp. 487–9, doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2004.09.005, PMID 15469837
  6. ^ Mishra, Rakesh K (2004), "Edward B Lewis (1918-2004)", J. Biosci., vol. 29, no. 3 (published September 2004), pp. 231–233, doi:10.1007/bf02702605, PMID 15381844, S2CID 2599750
  7. ^ Winchester, Guil (2004), "Edward B. Lewis 1918-2004", Curr. Biol., vol. 14, no. 18 (published September 21, 2004), pp. R740–2, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.09.007, PMID 15380080
  8. ^ Scott, Matthew P; Lawrence, Peter A (2004), "Obituary: Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)", Nature, vol. 431, no. 7005 (published September 9, 2004), p. 143, Bibcode:2004Natur.431..143S, doi:10.1038/431143a, PMID 15356617, S2CID 28741649
  9. ^ Caltech obituary of Edward Lewis Archived August 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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