Edward Bok Lewis

Edward Bok Lewis (Wilkes-Barre, 20 maggio 1918 – 21 luglio 2004) è stato un genetista statunitense, vincitore, insieme a Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ed Eric Wieschaus, del premio Nobel per la medicina nel 1995, «per le scoperte sul controllo genetico delle fasi precoci dello sviluppo embrionale».

Carriera

Lewis era nato a Wilkes-Barre, in Pennsylvania, e si era diplomato alla E. L. Meyers High School. Si laureò in biostatistica presso l'Università del Minnesota, dove studiò la drosophila melanogaster nel laboratorio di Clarence Paul Oliver nel 1939. Nel 1942 conseguì il dottorato presso il Caltech di Pasadena, sotto la guida di Alfred Sturtevant. Dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, durante la quale lavorò per il servizio meteorologico della USAF, divenne istruttore al Caltech (1946). Nel 1956 fu nominato professore di biologia, e nel 1966 Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor di biologia. Oltre al premio Nobel, ottenuto nel 1995, gli furono assegnati altri riconoscimenti, come la National Medal of Science (1990), l'Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1991) e il Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1992).

Il Nobel gli fu assegnato per gli studi sulla Drosophila, che furono la base di partenza per gli studi sulla genetica dello sviluppo.

Vita privata

Lewis era sposato con Pamela ed ebbe tre figli: Hugh, Glenn (defunto) e Keith.

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Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Edward Bok Lewis

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Edward B. Lewis, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) Edward Bok Lewis, su nobelprize.org.
• (EN) Opere di Edward Bok Lewis, su Open Library, Internet Archive.

V · D · M Vincitori del Premio Nobel per la medicina
1901 - 1925	Emil Adolf von Behring (1901) • Ronald Ross (1902) • Niels Ryberg Finsen (1903) • Ivan Pavlov (1904) • Robert Koch (1905) • Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1906) • Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1907) • Il'ja Il'ič Mečnikov, Paul Ehrlich (1908) • Emil Theodor Kocher (1909) • Albrecht Kossel (1910) • Allvar Gullstrand (1911) • Alexis Carrel (1912) • Charles Robert Richet (1913) • Robert Bárány (1914) • Jules Bordet (1919) • August Krogh (1920) • Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Meyerhof (1922) • Frederick Banting, John James Rickard Macleod (1923) • Willem Einthoven (1924)
1926 - 1950	Johannes Fibiger (1926) • Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1927) • Charles Nicolle (1928) • Christiaan Eijkman, Frederick Hopkins (1929) • Karl Landsteiner (1930) • Otto Heinrich Warburg (1931) • Charles Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian (1932) • Thomas Hunt Morgan (1933) • George Whipple, George Minot, William Murphy (1934) • Hans Spemann (1935) • Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi (1936) • Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937) • Corneille Heymans (1938) • Gerhard Domagk (1939) • Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy (1943) • Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser (1944) • Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Howard Walter Florey (1945) • Hermann Joseph Muller (1946) • Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay (1947) • Paul Hermann Müller (1948) • Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Egas Moniz (1949) • Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeusz Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench (1950)
1951 - 1975	Max Theiler (1951) • Selman Waksman (1952) • Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann (1953) • John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins (1954) • Hugo Theorell (1955) • André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson Richards (1956) • Daniel Bovet (1957) • George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg (1958) • Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg (1959) • Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar (1960) • Georg von Békésy (1961) • Francis Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Wilkins (1962) • John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley (1963) • Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen (1964) • François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod (1965) • Francis Peyton Rous, Charles B. Huggins (1966) • Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald (1967) • Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg (1968) • Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria (1969) • Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod (1970) • Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. (1971) • Gerald Edelman, Rodney Robert Porter (1972) • Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973) • Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade (1974) • David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin (1975)
1976 - 2000	Baruch Blumberg, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1976) • Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow (1977) • Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton Smith (1978) • Allan McLeod Cormack, Godfrey Hounsfield (1979) • Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George Snell (1980) • Roger Sperry, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel (1981) • Sune Bergström, Bengt Samuelsson, John Vane (1982) • Barbara McClintock (1983) • Niels Kaj Jerne, Georges Köhler, César Milstein (1984) • Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph Goldstein (1985) • Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986) • Susumu Tonegawa (1987) • James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George Herbert Hitchings (1988) • John Michael Bishop, Harold Varmus (1989) • Joseph Murray, Edward Donnall Thomas (1990) • Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann (1991) • Edmond Fischer, Edwin Krebs (1992) • Richard Roberts, Phillip Sharp (1993) • Alfred Gilman, Martin Rodbell (1994) • Edward Bok Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric Wieschaus (1995) • Peter Charles Doherty, Rolf Zinkernagel (1996) • Stanley Prusiner (1997) • Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro, Ferid Murad (1998) • Günter Blobel (1999) • Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric Kandel (2000)
2001 - oggi	Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Paul Nurse (2001) • Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John Sulston (2002) • Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield (2003) • Richard Axel, Linda Buck (2004) • Barry J. Marshall, Robin Warren (2005) • Andrew Z. Fire, Craig Mello (2006) • Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, Oliver Smithies (2007) • Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier (2008) • Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak (2009) • Robert Geoffrey Edwards (2010) • Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffmann, Ralph Steinman (2011) • John Gurdon, Shin'ya Yamanaka (2012) • James Rothman, Randy Schekman, Thomas Südhof (2013) • John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser (2014) • William Cecil Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, Tu Youyou (2015) • Yoshinori Ōsumi (2016) • Jeffrey Connor Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael Warren Young (2017) • James Patrick Allison, Tasuku Honjo (2018) • William Kaelin Jr., Peter John Ratcliffe, Gregg L. Semenza (2019) • Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice (2020) • David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian (2021) • Svante Pääbo (2022) • Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman (2023)

V · D · M Vincitori Premio Wolf - Categoria Medicina
George Snell - Jean Dausset - Jon J. van Rood (1978) · Roger Sperry - Arvid Carlsson - Oleh Hornykiewicz (1979) · César Milstein - Leo Sachs - James Learmonth Gowans (1980) · Barbara McClintock - Stanley Cohen (1981) · Jean-Pierre Changeux - Solomon H. Snyder - James W. Black (1982) · Donald Steiner (1985) · Osamu Hayaishi (1986) · Pedro Cuatrecasas - Meir Wilchek (1987) · Henri-Géry Hers - Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1988) · John Gurdon - Edward Bok Lewis (1989) · Maclyn McCarty (1990) · Seymour Benzer (1991) · Judah Folkman (1992) · Michael Berridge - Yasutomi Nishizuka (1995) · Stanley Ben Prusiner (1996) · Mary Frances Lyon (1997) · Michael Sela - Ruth Arnon (1998) · Eric Kandel (1999) · Avram Hershko - Alexander Varshavsky (2001) · Ralph L. Brinster - Mario Renato Capecchi - Oliver Smithies (2003) · Robert Weinberg - Roger Yonchien Tsien (2004) · Alexander Levitzki - Anthony R. Hunter - Anthony Pawson (2005) · Howard Cedar - Aharon Razin (2008) · Axel Ullrich (2010) · Shin'ya Yamanaka - Rudolf Jaenisch (2011) · Ronald M. Evans (2012) · Nahum Sonenberg - Gary Ruvkun - Victor Ambros (2014) · John Kappler - Philippa Marrack - Jeffrey Ravetch (2015) · C. Ronald Kahn - Lewis C. Cantley (2016) · James Patrick Allison (2017) · Jeffrey M. Friedman (2019) · Emmanuelle Charpentier - Jennifer Doudna (2020) · Joan Steitz - Lynne Elizabeth Maquat - Adrian Krainer (2021) · Daniel Drucker (2023)
Agricoltura · Arti · Chimica · Fisica · Matematica · Medicina

V · D · M Vincitori del Premio Louisa Gross Horwitz (Columbia University)

Luis Federico Leloir (1967) · Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1968) · Max Delbrück, Salvatore Luria (1969) · Albert Claude, George Emil Palade, Keith R. Porter (1970) · Hugh E. Huxley (1971) · Stephen W. Kuffler (1972) · Renato Dulbecco, Harry Eagle, Theodore T. Puck (1973) · Boris Ephrussi (1974) · Sune Bergström, Bengt Samuelsson (1975) · Seymour Benzer, Charles Yanofsky (1976) · Michael Heidelberger, Elvin A. Kabat, Henry G. Kunkel (1977) · David Hubel, Vernon Mountcastle, Torsten Wiesel (1978) · Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger (1979) · César Milstein (1980) · Aaron Klug (1981) · Barbara McClintock, Susumu Tonegawa (1982) · Stanley Cohen, Viktor Hamburger, Rita Levi-Montalcini (1983) · Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph Goldstein (1984) · Donald D. Brown, Mark Ptashne (1985) · Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann (1986) · Günter Blobel (1987) · Thomas R. Cech, Phillip Sharp (1988) · Alfred Gilman, Edwin Krebs (1989) · Stephen Harrison, Michael G. Rossmann, Don C. Wiley (1990) · Richard R. Ernst, Kurt Wüthrich (1991) · Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Edward Bok Lewis (1992) · Nicole Le Douarin, Donald Metcalf (1993) · Philippa Marrack, John Kappler (1994) · Leland Hartwell (1995) · Clay M. Armstrong, Bertil Hille (1996) · Stanley Prusiner (1997) · Arnold J. Levine, Bert Vogelstein (1998) · Pierre Chambon, Robert Roeder, Robert Tjian (1999) · H. Robert Horvitz, Stanley J. Korsmeyer (2000) · Avram Hershko, Alexander Varshavsky (2001) · James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman (2002) · Roderick MacKinnon (2003) · Tony Hunter, Tony Pawson (2004) · Ada Yonath (2005) · Roger David Kornberg (2006) · Joseph G. Gall, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider (2007) · F. Ulrich Hartl, Arthur Horwich, Rosalind Franklin (2008) · Victor R. Ambros, Gary Ruvkun (2009) · Thomas J. Kelly, Bruce Stillman (2010) · Jeffrey Connor Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael Warren Young (2011) · Richard Losick, Joe Lutkenhaus, Lucy Shapiro (2012) · Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, John O’Keefe (2013) · James Patrick Allison (2014) · S. Lawrence Zipursky (2015) · Howard Cedar, Aharon Razin, Gary Felsenfeld (2016) · Jeffrey I. Gordon (2017) · Pierre Chambon, Ronald M. Evans, Bert O’Malley (2018) · Lewis C. Cantley, David M. Sabatini, Peter K. Vogt (2019) · Robert Fettiplace, James Hudspeth, Christine Petit (2020)

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 84793598 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 1450 0995 · LCCN (EN) nr2001017936 · GND (DE) 1089861125 · J9U (EN, HE) 987007578889905171 · WorldCat Identities (EN) lccn-nr2001017936