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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is the 96th most popular biologist (up from 115th in 2019), the 657th most popular biography from Germany (up from 934th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Biologist.

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for her work on the genetic control of embryonic development.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 96 out of 1,097. Before her are Clair Cameron Patterson, Alfred Hershey, Ernst Mayr, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, and Aaron Ciechanover. After her are Pierre André Latreille, Nikolai Vavilov, Erwin Neher, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, and Ulisse Aldrovandi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 55. Before her are Giacinto Facchetti, Alassane Ouattara, Giancarlo Giannini, Sixto Rodriguez, The Iron Sheik, and George Vella. After her are Conrad Schumann, Wen Jiabao, Bob Hoskins, John Irving, Margaret Court, and Thabo Mbeki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 657 out of 7,253. Before her are Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866), Erhard Milch (1892), George Grosz (1893), August Macke (1887), Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), and Niklas Luhmann (1927). After her are Werner Forssmann (1904), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), Conrad Schumann (1942), August Horch (1868), Rudolf Bultmann (1884), and Jenny von Westphalen (1814).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 12. Before her are Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), Katherine Oppenheimer (1910), and Ernst Mayr (1904). After her are Erwin Neher (1944), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), and Bernard Katz (1911).

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