Lewis Wolpert

Lewis Wolpert was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.

19 October 1929

Born on the same birth day (19 October): Atom Araullo • Cara Santa Maria • Danka Barteková • Emil Gilels • Endō Shōta • Jaap Eden • José Luis López (Mexican footballer) • LaWanda Page • Larry Chance • Lewis Mumford • Louis-José Houde • Martin Kusch • Peter Tosh • Philip Pullman • Theodoros Vryzakis • Trey Parker

Born in the same month (October 1929): Bernard Mayes • Bonnie Owens • Bud Spencer • George Crumb • Grady Chapman • Graeme Ferguson (filmmaker) • Herb Levinson • Joan Plowright • John E. Mack • Leroy Van Dyke • Lev Yashin • Moses Gunn • Mário Wilson • Neal Matthews Jr. • Peter Rühmkorf • Ursula K. Le Guin