Edward B. Lewis
American geneticist
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Edward Butts Lewis 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. Wikipedia
Born: May 20, 1918, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Died: July 21, 2004 (age 86 years), Pasadena, CA
Education: California Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Bucknell University, and more
Known for: Research into genetics of the common fruit fly
Fields: Genetics; Developmental biology; Embryology;