Lewis Wolpert

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:birthDate 1929-10-19
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Johannesburg,_South_Africa
gptkbp:causeOfDeath gptkb:Parkinson's_disease
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:deathDate 2021-01-28
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:London,_England
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gptkbp:editor gptkb:Journal_of_Theoretical_Biology
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gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_College_London
gptkbp:field developmental biology
science communication
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Lewis Wolpert
gptkbp:influenced developmental biology
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Alan_Turing
gptkb:Conrad_Waddington
gptkbp:knownFor public understanding of science
positional information theory
work on morphogenesis
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gptkb:University_College_London
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gptkb:Royal_Society
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gptkb:Principles_of_Development
gptkb:Six_Impossible_Things_Before_Breakfast
gptkb:The_Triumph_of_the_Embryo
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:broadcaster
author
developmental biologist
gptkbp:religion atheism
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gptkb:Alison_Hawkes
gptkbp:subjectOf obituaries in major newspapers
BBC Radio 4 interviews
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gptkb:President_of_the_British_Science_Association
gptkb:Jill_Neville
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