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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995

Germany · b. 1942

Science and medicine

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Developmental biologist and director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen. Shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eric Wieschaus and Edward Lewis for identifying genes that control segmentation in the Drosophila embryo. The screens she and Wieschaus ran at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1979 and 1980 became a standard method in the field.

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Question Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them? Relationships read 56 other answers →
we had a wonderful education because my parents were so practical … Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: Yes I mean, I have a strong likeness of culture and also I mean my grandmother was a painter and we do music in the family quite a lot and I think that’s very important. What was also important, I thought about that recently, also maybe as a follow-up of an interview but I was asked what my parents did and so on and looking at my brothers and sisters, we had a wonderful education because my parents were so practical, they did books themselves and we did a lot of handicrafts and I knew how to knit and sew and cook and we learnt a lot to do things ourselves, to make things ourselves so we all have some dexterity in doing things ourselves and this is also very important for Science
Recorded Marika Griehsel, Interview at the 53rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 30 June–4 July 2003, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 July 2003 source ↗

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