Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995

“for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development”

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist. She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development. She was affiliated with the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie.