Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize) · Germany · Scientists · Born 1942 · age 83

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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.

A life in dates

2022Gregor Mendel MedalAward2014Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and ArtAward2009Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAward2007Deutscher StifterpreisAward1997Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts orderAward1996Order of Merit of Baden-WürttembergAward1995Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1993Sir Hans Krebs MedalAward1992Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. PrizeAwardMendel MedalAwardOtto Warburg MedalAward1991Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward1989Rosenstiel AwardAward1986Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz PrizeAward1942Born20 October 1942

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard in 2007

A preparation of the cuticle from a Drosophila embryo, similar to those examined by Nüsslein-Volhard. Note the bands of denticles on the left hand side (towards the head) of each segment.

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

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Setting up a in a new is a lot of work, but I like this kind of work - developing devices and tools that make things easier and more efficient.
as quoted by Katherine Brown in: (quote from p. 3852), Own words

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Awards

Gregor Mendel Medal2022

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art2014

Fellow of the AACR Academy2014

Hall of Fame of German Research2012

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art2009

Deutscher Stifterpreis2007

Erna Hamburger Prize2007

Urania Medal2005

Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany2005

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order1997

Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1997

Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg1996

Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt1996

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1995

Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1994

Ernst Schering Prize1993

Sir Hans Krebs Medal1993

Otto Bayer Award1992

Otto Warburg Medal1992

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1992

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize1992

Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine1992

Mendel Medal1992

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1991

Keith R. Porter Lecture1991

Foreign Member of the Royal Society1990

Carus medal1989

Rosenstiel Award1989

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize1986

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 American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary Doctor of the University of Utrecht

EMBO Membership

Honorary Doctor of the University of Bath

Honorary Doctor of the University of Tübingen

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Germany

In common with Christiane

Max DelbrückBoth received Gregor Mendel Medal

Klaus von KlitzingBoth received Hall of Fame of German Research

Benjamin ListBoth received Otto Bayer Award Erwin ChargaffBoth received Gregor Mendel Medal

Stefan HellBoth received Hall of Fame of German Research

Peter GrünbergBoth received Hall of Fame of German Research

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