Edward B. Lewis

Edward Lewis
Edward Lewis
Born	Edward Butts Lewis; May 20, 1918; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Died	July 21, 2004 (aged 86); Pasadena, California, US
Alma mater	University of Minnesota (B.A., 1939); California Institute of Technology (PhD, 1942, M.S., 1943);
Known for	Research into genetics of the common fruit fly
Awards	Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1983); ForMemRS (1989); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1992); Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1991); Nobel Prize in Medicine (1995);
	Scientific career
Fields	Genetics; Developmental biology; Embryology;
Thesis	A genetic and cytological analysis of a tandem duplication and its included loci in Drosophila melanogaster (1942)
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Sturtevant
Doctoral students	Mark M. Davis

Edward Butts Lewis (May 20, 1918 – July 21, 2004) 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.

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