Lewis Wolpert
British biologist (1929–2021)
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL FMedSci (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert was known for his work on the intracellular positional information that guides cellular development.
Lewis Wolpert | |
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 Wolpert in May 1994 | |
| Born | 19 October 1929 |
| Died | 28 January 2021 (aged 91) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | BSc, PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Witwatersrand Imperial College London King's College London |
| Occupation | Developmental biologist |
| Years active | 1960–2020 |
| Employer(s) | University College London (Emeritus Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology) |
| Organization(s) | Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Known for | positional-value concept in biological development |
| Notable work | Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression (1999) Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief (2006) |
| Children | Daniel Mark Wolpert |
| Awards | Hamburger prize for education – American Soc.Dev.Biol. Michael Faraday Prize (2000) Royal Medal (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Developmental biology |
| Doctoral students | Jim Smith[1][2] |
| Website | www |
Wolpert died at a hospital in London on 28 January 2021 from COVID-19, aged 91.[3]
Publications
change- Wolpert, Lewis; Richards, Alison (1988). A Passion for Science. Oxford, U.K: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854213-5.
- Wolpert, Lewis (1991). The Triumph of the Embryo. Oxford, UK & New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854243-7.
- Wolpert, Lewis (1994). The Unnatural Nature of Science. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-92980-2. Retrieved 14 November 2010. Paperback ISBN 978-0-674-92981-4 First published 1992 by Faber & Faber, London.
- Wolpert, Lewis (1999). Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-684-87058-4. Retrieved 14 November 2010Free registration facilitates access to introduction & chapter 1. Alternatively, type the title into Google within quotations "like this", and the webpage comes up (how found in the first instance)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Wolpert, Lewis; Tickle, Cheryll (2011). Principles of development. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955428-7.
- Wolpert, Lewis (2006). Six impossible things before breakfast, The evolutionary origins of belief. W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-06449-2.
- Wolpert, Lewis (2009). How We Live and Why We Die: The secret lives of cells, Norton. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571239122.
- Wolpert, Lewis (2011). You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571250653.
References
change- ↑ Weston, K. (2010). "The accidental biologist: an interview with Jim Smith". Disease Models & Mechanisms. 3 (1–2): 11–14. doi:10.1242/dmm.004952. PMID 20075376. S2CID 196585824.
- ↑ Smith, James Cuthbert (1979). Studies of positional signalling along the antero - posterior axis of the developing chick limb (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 500567020. Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ↑ Humanists UK mourns Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS (1929-2021)