15811 Nüsslein-Volhard, an asteroid named after Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), a German biologist and the Nobel Laureate
Christiane Amanpour | Christiane Kubrick | Christiane F. | Christiane Oelze | Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth | Christiane Nusslein-Volhard | Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth | Christiane Desroches Noblecourt | Volhard | Christiane Pflug | Christiane Paul | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | Christiane Endler | Christiane "Criquette" Head | 15811 Nüsslein-Volhard |
In the application for this position he was supported by such famous chemists as Baeyer, Beilstein, Bunsen, Butlerov, Erlenmeyer, Hofmann, Kolbe, Volhard and Wöhler.
The original mutations in the ptc gene were discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by 1995 Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and colleagues, and the gene was independently cloned in 1989 by Joan Hooper in the laboratory of Matthew P. Scott, and by Philip Ingham and colleagues.