Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert, CBE (born October 19, 1929 in Johannesburg , South Africa , † January 28, 2021 ) was a developmental biologist and embryologist working in Great Britain .
Wolpert was the author of various books and textbooks; he has also written science programs for the BBC and columns for the British daily newspaper The Independent . Originally trained as a civil engineer in South Africa, he then moved to London to do research in cell biology and embryology. Most recently he was a professor at University College London .
Wolpert became a member of the Royal Society in 1980 and gave the prestigious Christmas Lecture of the Royal Institution (Origins) in 1986 . From 1989 he was a member of the Academia Europaea . In 1990 he became Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1999 a member of the Royal Society of Literature . He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and an external member of the Polish Academy of Scholarship (PAU) in Krakow . From 1989 he was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. For 2018 he was awarded the Royal Medal in the field of "Biology".
His wife died of cancer. Wolpert published a book on depression as a disease in 1999, which was also published in German in 2008.
He died in January 2021 at the age of 91.
Publications in German
- Directors of life. The script of embryonic development . Translated from the English by Sebastian Vogel. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3-86025-081-5
- Developmental Biology , Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3827404940
- Incredible Science , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, Die Other Bibliothek series , ISBN 978-3-8218-4547-0
- Anatomy of melancholy. About the disease depression . Translated from the English by Sylvia Höfer. CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57091-9
- How we live and why we die. The secret life of the cells . Translated from the English by Elsbeth Ranke. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59165-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Lewis Wolpert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Lewis Wolpert in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Georgina Ferry: Lewis Wolpert obituary. In: The Guardian , January 29, 2021. Retrieved January 29, 2021.
- ↑ Lewis Wolpert , bl.uk, accessed on January 29, 2021 (with gallery).
- ^ Honorary Fellows. Royal Society of South Africa, accessed April 13, 2020 .
- ^ Humanists UK mourns Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS (1929-2021). In: humanism.org.uk. January 28, 2021, accessed January 29, 2021 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolpert, Lewis |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | South African developmental biologist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg , South Africa |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 2021 |