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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

b. 1942

German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)

Born
20 Oct 1942 · Magdeburg

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 97 years
  1. 20 Oct 1942BornBorn in Magdeburg
  2. 1986AwardGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  3. 1989AwardCarus medal
  4. 1989AwardRosenstiel Award
  5. 1990AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  6. 1991AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  7. 1991AwardKeith R. Porter Lecture
  8. 1992AwardAlfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
  9. 1992AwardLouis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
  10. 1992AwardLouisa Gross Horwitz Prize
  11. 1992AwardMendel Medal
  12. 1992AwardOtto Bayer Award
  13. 1992AwardOtto Warburg Medal

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1942 – today).

  1. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  2. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  3. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  4. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  6. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  7. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  9. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  10. 1956Suez Crisis
  11. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  13. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  15. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  17. 1968Prague Spring
  18. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  19. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  20. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  21. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  23. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  24. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  25. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  26. 1985Schengen Agreement
  27. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  28. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  29. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  31. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  33. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  34. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  35. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  36. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  37. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  38. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  39. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  40. 20102010 Haiti earthquake

Biography

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. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.

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