biography
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Nuesslein-Volhard, Christiane
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pronunciation:
[nüsliyn folh
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| female
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Developmental biologist, born in Magdeburg, EC Germany. She studied at the University of Tübingen, where she joined the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. She shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for her research into how genes control early development of the human embryo. Using the fruit fly, her contribution, in collaboration with Wieschaus, was to identify a number of genes which determine the body plan and formation of body segments. She was the first German woman to receive a science Nobel Prize. |
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