The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995
Awarded on: 1995-10-09
"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
Affiliations:
- Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie – Tübingen, Germany
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Born: 1942-10-20 in Magdeburg, Germany
Gender: female
Field: German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize winner
Biography
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard 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.