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nusslein-volhard, christiane

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Nüss·lein-Vol·hard   (nüs'līn'fôl'härt')   
German biologist who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize in medicine for her work with fruit flies, which identified the genes that are essential for the embryonic development of the body segments.
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