What is Walter Jakob Gehring?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Walter Jakob Gehring |image = Walter_Jakob Gehring 2014.jpg |image_size = |caption = Walter Jakob Gehring (2014) |birth_date = {{birth date|1939|3|20|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[Zurich]], Switzerland |death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|5|29|1939|3|20|mf=y}} |death_place = [[Basel]], Switzerland |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[Switzerland|Swiss]] |ethnicity = |field = [[Developmental biology|Developmental Biologist]] |work_institutions = [[University of Zurich]], [[Yale Medical School]], [[Yale University]], [[Biozentrum University of Basel]] |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Walter Jakob Gehring''' (March 20, 1939 – May 29, 2014) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] developmental biologist. He was a professor at the [[Biozentrum University of Basel|Biozentrum Basel]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gehring.biozentrum.unibas.ch/ |title=Official website |publisher=Biozentrum.unibas.ch |date= |accessdate=2014-06-03}}</ref> of the [[University of Basel]], [[Switzerland]]. He earned his Ph.D. at the [[University of Zurich]] in 1965. After two years as a research assistant of Professor [[Ernst Hadorn]] he joined Professor [[Alan Garen]]'s group at [[Yale University]] in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC389475/ |title=Imaginal Disc Abnormalities in Lethal Mutants of Drosophila |publisher=ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |date= |accessdate=2014-06-03}}</ref> He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gehring_Walter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gehring_Walter |title=Walter Gehring |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gehring, Walter Jakob}} [[Category:1939 births]] [