Edward Butts Lewis was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995, announced October 9, 1995. Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Eric F. Wieschaus, “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development”. Edward B. Lewis: born 1918, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: born 1942, Magdeburg, Germany. Eric F. Wieschaus: born 1947, South Bend, IN, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).