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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

LEWIS, Edward Butts (1918 – 2004)

1918 – 2004

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1978

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A gene complex controlling segmentation in Drosophila.

LEWIS, Edward Butts (1918 – 2004)

Discovery of the Drosophila Bithorax complex and elucidation of its function. Lewis founded the field of developmental genetics and laid the groundwork for current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conser…