Lewis Wolpert

摘要

Lewis Wolpert is Professor of Biology as Appfied to Medicine at University College London. He originally trained as a civil engineer in South Africa, but changed to research in cell and developmental biology in 1955. His main contributions are related to morphogenesis and his concept of positional information. He was for four years Chairman of the Committee for the Public Understanding of Science. His books include Malignant Sadness -- The Anatomy of Depression (Faber, 1999) and The Unnatural Nature of Science (Faber, 1992), and he is the main author of Principles of Development (OUP, 2002). He also writes a column for the British newspaper 'The Independent'.