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Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate

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Eric F. Wieschaus

American evolutionary developmental biologist (born 1947)

Eric Francis Wieschaus is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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June 8

Day of the year

June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 206 days remain until the end of the year.
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