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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard biography
Date of birth : 1942-10-20
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Magdeburg, Germany
Nationality : German
Category : Science and Technology
Last modified : 2011-09-21
Credited as : geneticist, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine,
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Nüsslein-Volhard and her long-time collaborator Eric F. Wieschaus were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1995, sharing the honor with Edward B. Lewis, whose discovery that genes for controlling organ formation are arranged in order on the chromosomes provided the foundation for the work of Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus. Since winning her Nobel Prize, she has switched her studies from fruit flies to zebra fish, and at last report she was keeping about 10,000 aquariums housing half a million fish. In her spare time she designs jigsaw puzzles, and she has established the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation, which provides daycare funding for female scientists who have small children.
"There is terrible prejudice against women who are successful", she said in a 2006 interview with the New York Times. "If she's beautiful, she must be stupid. And if a woman is smart, she must be ugly -- or nasty. I think it makes some people feel better to learn I bake good chocolate cake."
Awards:
Lasker Award 1991
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1995 (with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus)
National Academy of Sciences