Lewis Wolpert

embryology, ethics and depression

Abstract

Lewis Wolpert is a prominent developmental biologist, well known for hisconcept of positional information and the “French flag problem”. ProfessorWolpert sustains that reliable science is value-free, and he has been playingan important role in making science available to the public. This interviewprovides an insight into some of the key ideas of this polemic thinker.