Awards & Winners

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Date of Birth 20-October-1942
Place of Birth Magdeburg
(Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Nationality Germany
Also know as Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Profession Chemist, Scientist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist. 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. Today she lives in Bebenhausen, Germany.

Awards by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Check all the awards nominated and won by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.

1995


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development)

1991


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For charting new paths in developmental biology through investigations which led to the discovery of nearly all genes responsible for organizing basic body patterns. )