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Eric F. Wieschaus

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Eric Francis Wieschaus
Wieschaus at 11th European Conference on Artificial Life in Paris
Born
Eric Francis Wieschaus

(1947-06-08)June 8, 1947[1]
NationalityAmerican
Known forembryogenesis
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Eric Francis Wieschaus (born June 8, 1947) is an American developmental biologist.

A lot of Wieschaus' research focuses on embryogenesis in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and it specifically focuses on the patterning which occurs in the early Drosophila embryo.[1] In 1995, Wieschaus shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward B. Lewis and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development".[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Eric F. Wieschaus - Facts". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2014-06-28.