| | Edward B. Lewis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Edward B. Lewis (May 20, 1918–July 21, 2004) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A biologist who specializes in genetics) geneticist, the winner of the 1995 (Click link for more info and facts about Nobel Prize in Medicine) Nobel Prize in Medicine. |
 | | In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Biology, and in 1966 the (United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)) Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology. |
 | | His Nobel Prize winning studies with (Small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance) Drosophila founded the field of (Click link for more info and facts about developmental genetics) developmental genetics and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conserved strategies controlling animal development. |
| www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_b._lewis.htm (215 words) |