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Wieschaus

American  
[wee-shous, vee‑] / ˈwi ʃaʊs, ˈvi‑ /

noun

  1. Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel Prize 1995.


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EMBL's achievements include the Nobel prize awarded to Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus in 1995 for their work on early embryonic development.

From Nature • Jul. 8, 2014

Wieschaus and Nusslein-Volhard bred 40,000 fruit-fly families, each with a single defect.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mutants generated by Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus were even more dramatic than the ones described by Lewis.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The genes altered in these mutants, Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus reasoned, determine the basic architectural plan of the embryo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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