Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

1942 -

Country of citizenship: Germany

Languages spoken, written or signed: German

Educated at: University of Tübingen, Goethe University Frankfurt

Occupation: biologist, biochemist, geneticist, psychologist, university teacher, physiologist

Award received: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, Carus medal, Otto Bayer Award, Ernst Schering Prize, Otto Warburg Medal, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Deutscher Stifterpreis, Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize, Rosenstiel Award, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Hall of Fame of German Research, Keith R. Porter Lecture, Sir Hans Krebs Medal, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, honorary doctorate from Princeton University, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctor of the University of Freiburg, Fellow of the AACR Academy, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, EMBO Membership, Urania Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Bath, honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, Erna Hamburger Prize, Gregor Mendel Medal, Mendel Medal

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Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈti̯anə ˈnʏslaɪ̯n ˈfɔlˌhaʁt] ; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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