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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
(20 Oct 1942 - )
German developmental
geneticist who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
for research into the mechanisms of early embryonic development. She
co-authored a paper in Nature
(1980), with Eric Wieschaus, entitled "Mutations Affecting Segment
Number and Polarity in Drosophila," that revolutionised the field
of developmental genetics.
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“I immediately loved working with
flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.”
— Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
1995 Nobel Prize - Nobel
Autobiography
“The three of us have worked on the
development of the small and totally harmless fruitfly, Drosophila. This
animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed
to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a
single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and
harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful
or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.”
— Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Nobel Banquet Speech, 10 Dec 1995
