Awards & Winners

Edward B. Lewis

Date of Birth 20-May-1918
Place of Birth Wilkes-Barre
(Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Edward Lewis
Edward B. Lewis was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Awards by Edward B. Lewis

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edward B. Lewis.

1995


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development)

1991


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For fundamental research on the Bithorax complex, which established the role of homeotic genes in the development of cell patterns and provided a foundation for current studies of embryonic development.)

1990


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For his demonstration and exploration of the genetic control of the development of body segments by homeotic genes.)

1989


Wolf Prize in Medicine
(For his demonstration and exploration of the genetic control of the development of body segments by homeotic genes.)

1987


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For the identification and analysis of genes that control embryonic development.)