# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-b-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:53:41.370Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-b-lewis"
name: "Edward B. Lewis"
slug: "edward-b-lewis"
description: "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."
tagline: "American biologist (1918–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Lewis_1986.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-05-20"
deathDate: "2004-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.013993541442411
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump