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Microbiology. Institutions. University of Cambridge. Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Pasteur Institute. André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) [1] [2] [3] was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.
Mar 22, 2024 · André Lwoff was a French biologist who contributed to the understanding of lysogeny, in which a bacterial virus, or bacteriophage, infects bacteria and is transmitted to subsequent bacterial generations solely through the cell division of its host. Lwoff’s discoveries brought him (with François.
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Nov 1, 1998 · Abstract. With the death of Andre Lwoff, one of the greatest French representatives of science has disappeared. He began his career in 1921, at the age of 19. He lived therefore throughout the century during which biology became a science instead of a collection of heterogeneous disciplines.
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André Michel Lwoff (1902–1994) was a French microbiologist who joined the Institut Pasteur in Paris when he was just 19 years old. In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, in the lab of Otto Meyerhof, whre he researched ...
Jun 8, 2018 · The French microbiologist, protozoologist, and geneticist André Lwoff (1902-1994) was influential in the creation of the European Organization of Molecular Biology in 1964. André Lwoff, born May 8, 1902, at Ainay-le-Château (Allier), was the son of Russian parents recently settled in France.
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André Lwoff was a one of the pioneers of molecular biology. In 1965 he received, together with Jacques Monod and François Jacob, the Nobel Prize (medicine and physiology) for the important contributions he made to fundamental virology and for his discoveries of roles of vitamins.
Oct 7, 1994 · PARIS —. Andre Lwoff, a pioneer in the field of molecular biology and a co-winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine, has died at age 92. Lwoff died Sept. 30 in Paris, the Weizmann Institute of ...
