Lewis Wolpert

Lewis Wolpert
Wolpert in May 1994
Born	(1929-10-19)19 October 1929 South Africa
Died	28 January 2021(2021-01-28) (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.ucl.ac.uk/cdb/research/wolpert

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.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.^[3]

Wolpert died at a hospital in London on 28 January 2021 from COVID-19, aged 91.^[4]

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ "Lewis Wolpert". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
4. ↑ Humanists UK mourns Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS (1929-2021)