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Wie⋅schaus

[wee-shous, vee‑]
–noun
Eric, born 1947, U.S.-born biologist: Nobel prize 1995.
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Wie·schaus   (wē'shous', vē'-)   
German-born biologist. His research on fruit flies resulted in the identification of the genes that are essential for embryonic development of the body segments. He shared a 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine.
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