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André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994)[1] [2] [3] microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.
Education, early life and career [ edit ]
Lwoff was born in Ainay-le-Château , Allier , in Auvergne , France, into a Jewish [4] [5] [6] Institute Pasteur in Paris when he was 19 years old. In 1932, he 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 Meyerhof , where he did research on the development of flagellates . Another Rockefeller grant allowed him go to the University of Cambridge in 1937. In 1938, he was appointed departmental head at the Institut Pasteur , where he did groundbreaking research on bacteriophages , microbiota and on the poliovirus .
Awards and honors [ edit ]
He was awarded numerous prizes from the French Académie des Sciences , the Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer , the Leeuwenhoek Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1960 and the Keilin Medal of the British Biochemical Society in 1964. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 for the discovery of the mechanism that some viruses (which he named proviruses ) use to infect bacteria .[6] National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and the American Philosophical Society .[7] [8] [9] Marguerite Lwoff although he gained considerably more recognition. Lwoff was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1958 .[1] FEMS for a term of two years from 1974. The FEMS-Lwoff Award in microbiology is named in his honour. [10]
Personal life [ edit ]
Lwoff was married to the microbiologist and virologist Marguerite Lwoff with whom he published many works. He was also a humanist against capital punishment .[11]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Shafrir, E. (1996). "Jacques L. Monod, Francois J. Jacob and Andre M. Lwoff--introducers of new dimensions in cellular genetics and molecular biology". Israel Journal of Medical Sciences . 32 2 ): 162. PMID 8631654 .
^ "André Lwoff - Biography" . Nobelprize.org . 1965. Retrieved 2013-05-24 .
^ "André Lwoff, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965" . geni_family_tree . 8 May 1902. Retrieved 2023-03-30 .
^ "Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine" . www.jinfo.org . Retrieved 2023-03-30 .
^ a b Sullivan, Walter (1994-10-04). "Andre Lwoff, 92, Biologist, Dies; Shared Nobel for Study of Cells" . The New York Times ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2013-05-24 .
^ "Andre Lwoff" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 2022-09-22 .
^ "Andre Michel Lwoff" . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . Retrieved 2022-09-22 .
^ "APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 2022-09-22 .
^ "FEMS-Lwoff Award" .
^ Michel Morange (2005). "What history tells us III. André Lwoff: From protozoology to molecular definition of viruses" . p. 593. Retrieved 23 April 2017 . His culture was not limited to biology: André Lwoff was a humanist (Lwoff 1981).
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