Christiane nusslein volhard biography for kids

German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize winner

Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard (German pronunciation:[kʁɪsˈti̯anəˈnʏslaɪ̯nˈfɔlˌhaʁt]^ⓘ; 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.^[a]

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 embryonicdevelopment.^[3][4]

Early life and education

Nüsslein-Volhard was born in Magdeburg on 20 October 1942, the second of five children to Rolf Volhard, an architect, and Brigitte Haas Volhard, a nursery school teache