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André Lwoff
André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
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science · French microbiologist (1902–1994) · biologist · virologist · physician · researcher · botanist · microbiologist · also André Lwoff, André Michel Lwoff, Andre Michael Lwoff, Andre Lwoff, A.Lwoff, Lwoff
Born 8 May 1902 · Died 30 September 1994 · Q223309
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2023· 1 entry
Scientific American: Stories by Andre Lwoff
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2021· 1 entry
The Baltimore Sun: Andre Lwoff, 92, a pioneer in the…
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1994· 1 entry
Died 1994-09-30.
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1965· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965).
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For the discovery of the mechanism that some viruses (which he named proviruses) use to infect bacteria
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1964).
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1960· 3 entries
Won Leeuwenhoek Medal (1960).
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Awarded Leeuwenhoek Lecture (1960).
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And the Keilin Medal of the British Biochemical Society in 1964
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Marjory Stephenson Prize (1957).
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1938· 1 entry
Was appointed departmental head at the Institut Pasteur, where he did groundbreaking research on bacteriophages, microbiota and on the poliovirus
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1932· 1 entry
Finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved with his wife and co-researcher Marguerite Lwoff to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerho
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-05-08.
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