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- Born
- 1918
- Died
- 2004
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Genes, development, and cancer
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- Born
- Edward Butts Lewis , May 20, 1918 ( 1918-05-20 ) , Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , US
- Died
- July 21, 2004 (2004-07-21) (aged 86), Pasadena, California, US
- Education
- University of Minnesota (B.A., 1939) California Institute of Technology (PhD, 1942, M.S., 1943)
- Known for
- Research into genetics of the common fruit fly
- Awards
- Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1983) Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1992) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1991) Nobel Prize in Medicine (1995)
- Fields
- Genetics Developmental biology Embryology
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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. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
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1918 births2004 deathsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican geneticistsAmerican Nobel laureatesBucknell University alumniCalifornia Institute of Technology alumniCalifornia Institute of Technology facultyDrosophilistsForeign members of the Royal SocietyMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesNational Medal of Science laureates