Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Drosophila
Year of Birth
1942
Nationality
DE
Field of Knowledge
Biology
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.
Nüsslein-Volhard earned her PhD in 1974 from the University of Tübingen, where she studied protein-DNA interaction. She won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development. She lives in Bebenhausen, Germany.
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70
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| German Ranking | — | 26 | 15 | — | — | — |