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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate

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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize winner (born 1942)

Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard 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.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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