Edward B. Lewis

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Edward Bok Lewis (born May 20, 1918 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , † July 21, 2004 in Pasadena , California ) was an American geneticist. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .

Lewis studied biology and genetics at the University of Minnesota until 1939 and at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in Pasadena . At Caltech, where the biophysicist and co-founder of molecular genetics Delbrück also worked, he received his doctorate in genetics in 1942. During World War II , Lewis worked as a meteorologist for the US Army. Back at the California Institute of Technology, Lewis became Assistant Professor of Biology in 1946, Associate the following year, and finally Full Professor of Biology in 1956 .

In 1992 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize . In 1995 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for his "fundamental knowledge about the genetic control of early embryo development". In 1983 he was awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal and in 1987 a Gairdner Foundation International Award . In 1967 Lewis was President of the Genetics Society of America . In 1968 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , in 1971 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1990 to the American Philosophical Society .

Edward Lewis was married to Pamela Lewis and had three children: Hugh, a lawyer who lives in Bellingham, Washington, Glenn, who died in his lifetime, and Keith, a biologist and research assistant who lives in Berkeley, California.

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  1. Gisela Baumgart (2005), p. 848.