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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Quotes

born 1942 Germany

Christiane "Janni" Nüsslein-Volhard (born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist, biochemist, molecular biologist, and geneticist, known for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development. She shared the 1991 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Edward B.

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It has seemed to me that men can have a hard time accepting that women can be smarter, particularly when a woman points out mistakes that the man has made. Throughout my career, I often had difficulties in getting a point across because the men couldn’t bear it that I might ‘win’, and in some cases this got even more difficult after the Nobel Prize.

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