- Chinese name
- Christian Newslin Walhard
- Foreign name
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
- date of birth
- October 20, 1942
- Occupation
- developmental geneticist
- Key achievements
- Obtained in 1991 Raska Award
Obtained in 1995 Nobel Physiological Medicine Award - one's native heath
- Magdeburg
Strictly speaking, Christine is not a singleton. She can see from her name when she got married. However, her experience of that failed marriage made her more determined on the road to science.
In the biological laboratory, she dances with fruit flies; In front of career and love, she also chose career without hesitation.
Why? It's also related to Christine's first failed marriage. Germany has always been a society with deep-rooted traditional ideas. Especially in the middle of the 20th century, once women got married, it meant they had to teach each other. But Christine deviated from social customs and engaged in her favorite scientific research after marriage. Her husband finally couldn't stand it after many times of forbearance and accommodation, and proposed a divorce. Christine gave up love for her career, changed her name, and added her family name after her husband's family name, which is also a declaration of her only child.
