Wolpert Lewis
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, U.K.
Int J Dev Biol. 2018;62(1-2-3):35-41. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.180030LW.
Here, I provide some recollections of my life, starting as a civil engineer in South Africa and how I gradually became interested in biology, particularly pattern formation. In retrospect, I think that my decision to work on chick embryos to study limb development back in 1966 turned out to be the right one. The principles discovered in these 50 years, both by my collaborators and by other colleagues, have established the principles of how the limb develops in higher vertebrates, including humans.
在此，我回顾一下自己的人生经历，从在南非成为一名土木工程师开始，以及我是如何逐渐对生物学，尤其是模式形成产生兴趣的。回首往事，我认为1966年我决定研究鸡胚以探究肢体发育是正确的决定。在这50年里，我和我的合作者以及其他同事所发现的原理，确立了包括人类在内的高等脊椎动物肢体发育的原理。
