Edward B. Lewis

American biologist (1918-2004) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 86

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.

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2004Died21 July 20041995Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1992Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAward1991Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward1990National Medal of ScienceAward1989Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAwardRosenstiel AwardAwardWolf Prize in MedicineAward1987Canada Gairdner International AwardAward1983Thomas Hunt Morgan MedalAward1918Born20 May 1918

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