| Authorised form of name | Lewis; Edward Butts (1918 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1918 - 2004 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
| Date of birth | 20/05/1918 |
| Place of death | Pasadena, California |
| Date of death | 21/07/2004 |
| Occupation | Geneticist |
| Activity | Education:
Bucknell College, Pennsylvania (music scholarship); University of Minnesota, BSc (genetics and biostatistics) (1939); PhD at California Institute of Technology (1942)
Career:
Cadet, US Army Air Corps training programme in meteorology, served in Hawaii and Okinawa (1943-1945); Instructor, California Institute of Technology (1946-1948), Assistant Professor of Biology (1948-1949), Associate Professor (1949-1956), Professor (1956-1966), Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology (1966-1988, Emeritus); Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Cambridge University (1947-1948); elected to US National Academy of Sciences (1968), American Philosophical Society (1990); honorary member of Genetical Society of Great Britain; Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1983); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1987); Wolf Foundation PrUS National Medal of Science (1990)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1995 jointly |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 29/06/1989 |
| Age at election | 71 |
| Relationships | Married (1946) Pamela Harrah |
| Source | Sources:
Obituaries in The Independent (27/07/2004), The Guardian (27/07/2004) and the Daily Telegraph (28/07/2004); The Times (03/08/2004) |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/84793598 |
| Code | NA4735 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002733 | Lewis, Edward Butts | 1989 |
| EC/1989/44 | Lewis, Edward Butts: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1984 |