Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS

Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS was a developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert was best known for his French flag model of embryonic development, where he used 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 be used to inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.

He was also an author of several science books including Triumph of the Embryo (1991), Malignant Sadness (1999), The Evolutionary Origins of Belief (2006), and How We Live And Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells (2009).