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Edward B. Lewis (
May 20,
1918 –
July 21,
2004) was an
American geneticist, the winner of the
1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Lewis was born in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and graduated from E.L. Meyers High School. He received a BA in Biostatistics from the
University of Minnesota in 1939, where he worked on
Drosophila melanogaster in the lab of
C.P. Oliver. In 1942 Lewis received a Ph.D. from
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), working under the guidance of
Alfred Sturtevant. After serving as a meteorologist in the
U.S. Air Force in
World War II, Lewis joined the Caltech faculty in 1946 as an instructor. In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Biology, and in 1966 the
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology. Among his many awards were the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1983), the Gairdner Foundation International award (1987), the Wolf Foundation prize in medicine (1989), the Rosenstiel award (1990), the
National Medal of Science (1990), the
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1991), and the
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1992).
His Nobel Prize winning studies with
Drosophila founded the field of
developmental genetics and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conserved strategies controlling animal development. He is credited with development of the
complementation test. His key publications in the fields of
genetics,
developmental biology,
radiation and
cancer are presented in the book
Genes, Development and Cancer, which was released in 2004.
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