Eric Wieschaus
Eric Frank Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947 in South Bend ) is an American molecular biologist and developmental biologist .
After attending a Catholic high school in Birmingham (Alabama) , Wieschaus studied biology , first near his hometown at the University of Notre Dame and then in New Haven (Connecticut) at Yale University . After being in 1974 with a thesis on experimental embryology doctorate had been, he joined in 1978 a post at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg on. In 1981 he returned to the United States and has worked at Princeton University in New Jersey since then .
One focus of his work was the embryogenesis of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster . For his joint work with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1995 with her and Edward B. Lewis . That same year he was awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal . In 2002 he gave the Keith R. Porter Lecture and in 2011 he was accepted into the Order Pour le Mérite . He was also accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993 , the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and the American Philosophical Society in 1998.
literature
- Gisela Baumgart: Wieschaus, Eric F. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1494 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1995 award ceremony to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus (English)
- ↑ Orden Pour le mérite has four new members at ad-hoc-news.de; Retrieved July 18, 2011
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| SURNAME | Wieschaus, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wieschaus, Eric Frank (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner in medicine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Bend |