biography
| name: |
Lwoff, André (Michael)
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pronunciation:
[lwof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1902–94)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Ainay-le-Château, C France. He studied at the University of Paris, worked in the Pasteur Institute in Paris from 1921, was a member of the Resistance in World War 2, and became professor of microbiology at the Sorbonne from 1959. He researched the genetics of bacterial viruses and demonstrated the process of lysogeny, with implications for cancer research. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965. |
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