Edward B. Lewis
American biologist (1918-2004) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Born | Edward Butts Lewis May 20, 1918 (1918-05-20) |
Died | July 21, 2004 (2004-07-22) (aged 86) Pasadena, California, US |
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Known for | Research into genetics of the common fruit fly |
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Thesis | A genetic and cytological analysis of a tandem duplication and its included loci in Drosophila melanogaster (1942) |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred Sturtevant |
Doctoral students | Mark M. Davis[3] |
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