Note that many other Nobel Prizes relate to important work that have made modern Developmental Biology possible, particularly advances in chemistry, cell biology, genetics, and molecular biology. One particularly important one is included below: 'the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP' and featured on the Bio 376 home page.
See also Selected Nobel Prizes in Molecular Biology
Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
"in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system" [Ramón y Cajal is the founder of 'Developmental Neurobiology']
"for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"
Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini
"for their discoveries of growth factors"
Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus
"for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"
Brief description / more information about this Nobel (local)
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"
"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
Brief description / more information about this Nobel (local)
"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Brief description / more information about this Nobel (local)"for the development of in vitro fertilization"
"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"