Eric F. Wieschaus

Eric Frank Wieschaus ( born June 8, 1947 in South Bend ) is an American developmental biologist.

After attending a Catholic High School in Birmingham (Alabama ) studied biology Wieschaus, first in his native town at the University of Notre Dame and then in New Haven ( Connecticut ) at Yale University. After he had received his doctorate there, he joined in 1978 at a place at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory ( EMBL) in Heidelberg. In 1981 he returned to the United States and has since been working at Princeton University in New Jersey.

One focus of his work was the embryogenesis of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. For his joint work with Christiane Nüsslein -Volhard, he received in 1995 with her ​​and Edward B. Lewis the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the same year he was awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal. In 2002, he held the Keith R. Porter Lecture, 2011, he was inducted into the Order Pour le Mérite.