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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Developmental biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1995

Germany · b. 1942

Developmental biologist and director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen. Shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eric Wieschaus and Edward Lewis for identifying genes that control segmentation in the Drosophila embryo. The screens she and Wieschaus ran at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1979 and 1980 became a standard method in the field.

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Whose work makes you jealous?

I felt at the time that Eric was much more successful than I, he was extremely productive during his time in Zurich, and worked on many very original projects, germ line, cell lineage, sex determination, where not many people could follow him. I also had the impression that I was dependent on him because he had more fly experience and without him I would not have gotten the job. This made our start in Heidelberg a little difficult, until we sorted things out, and from then on we thoroughly enjoyed working in the same lab.

Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 1995 source

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