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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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Science Quotes by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (2)
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 fruit fly, 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
