The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995

Edward B. Lewis

Prize share: 1/3

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Prize share: 1/3

Eric F. Wieschaus

Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995 was awarded jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development."

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