Wieschaus

[ wee-shous, vee‑ ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

In 1979, one year after Lewis had published his paper on the genes that govern limb and wing development, two embryologists, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus, working in Heidelberg, began to create fruit fly mutants to capture the very first steps that govern the formation of the embryo.

From Literature

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

From Literature

Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus termed these segmentation genes.

From Literature

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