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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

1942 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard has received more than 277,313 page views. Her biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is the 115th most popular biologist (up from 161st in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,285th in 2019) and the 14th 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 115 out of 1,097. Before her are Nikolay Pirogov, Georg Forster, Alfred Hershey, John Gurdon, Aimé Bonpland, and Hans Christian Gram. After her are Carl Woese, Edward B. Lewis, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Sydney Brenner, Har Gobind Khorana, and Macfarlane Burnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 84. Before her are Junichiro Koizumi, Peter Greenaway, Hissène Habré, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, John Cale, and Jean-Claude Trichet. After her are Valeri Polyakov, George Jung, Donna Leon, Maria Kaczyńska, Amine Gemayel, and Pál Schmitt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 934 out of 7,253. Before her are Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Steffi Graf (1969), John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Harald Quandt (1921), Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831), and Franz Oppenheimer (1864). After her are Sophia of Prussia (1870), Max Ophüls (1902), Princess Wilhelmine of Baden (1788), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), Christina of Saxony (1461), and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ranks 14. Before her are Hans Spemann (1869), Peter Simon Pallas (1741), August Weismann (1834), Ernst Mayr (1904), Bernard Katz (1911), and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806). After her are Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), August Grisebach (1814), Erwin Neher (1944), Bert Sakmann (1942), and Walther Flemming (1843).

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