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History of Scientific Women
Christiane NUSSLEIN-VOLHARD
21st century
Fields:Medicine, Genetics
Born: 1942 in Magdebourg (Germany)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995
Main achievements: Works on the genetic control of embryonic development.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist.
Christiane nusslein volhard biography of michael
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.
Today she lives in Bebenhausen, Germany.
The experiments that earned Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus their Nobel prize aimed to identify genes involved in the development of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) embryos.
At this point (the late 1970s and early 1980s) little was known about the genetic and molecular mechanisms by which multicellular organisms develop from single cells to morphologically complex forms dur