biography
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Wieschaus, Eric F(rancis)
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pronunciation:
[veeshows]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1947– )
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| biography:
| Biologist, born in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He studied at Notre Dame (1969), took his PhD at Yale (1974), then worked in laboratories in Zürich, Heidelberg, and Paris. In 1981 he joined the faculty at Princeton. He concentrated on studying the genes of the fruit fly, identifying those that control the organization of the body's distinct parts as an embryo develops - work that holds great promise for identifying congenital problems in humans. It was his research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at Heidelberg (1978–81) that gained him a share of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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