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André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.
Biographical. André Michel Lwoff was born on 8 May 1902 in Ainay-le-Château (Allier). He joined the Institut Pasteur at the age of 19. He had graduated in science and had done one year of medicine. Lwoff completed his studies while working in the laboratory.
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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Sep 30, 1994 · Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. André Lwoff. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965. Born: 8 May 1902, Ainay-le-Château, France. Died: 30 September 1994, Paris, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
André Lwoff thus defined the status and role of growth factors. Subsequent biochemical analysis gave rise to the concept of uniqueness of structure and functioning in the living world. His work was recognized as fundamental by the international scientific community.
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.
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 ...
