Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhardis 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...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 October 1942
CountryGermany
humans numbers required work
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
bosses encouraged german government lose maternity occurs science special talented time women
In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves.
dreams followed
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.
successful animal hands
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.
taken accomplishment important
It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
passion creativity men
I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
successful thinking danger
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
morning two always-trying
I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.
father kids pressure
The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.
successful age proud
In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.
father kids successful
I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.