André Lwoff
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André Lwoff was a French microbiologist, geneticist and protozoologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for his contributions to the understanding of the lysogeny or lysogenic cycle mechanism. He showed that bacteriophage, a bacterial virus, can cause infection to bacteria which is then transferred to succeeding generations of bacteria entirely by way of cell division of its host. He also showed that the prophage under some conditions engender an infective form that results in lysis or breaking down of the membrane of the bacterial cell and the viruses thus released due to such disintegration can infect other hosts of bacteria. He had done significant research on poliovirus, microbiota and bacteriophages at the renowned ‘Pasteur Institute’ of France and received several honours and awards including the ‘Leeuwenhoek Medal’ and the ‘Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer’.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Microbiologist
Birth Day May 08, 1902
Birth Place Ainay-le-Château, Allier, Auvergne, France, French
Age 118 YEARS OLD
Died On 30 September 1994(1994-09-30) (aged 92)\nParis, France
Birth Sign Gemini
Alma mater Pasteur Institute
Known for Provirus
Spouse(s) Marguerite Lwoff
Awards ForMemRS (1958) Nobel Prize in Medicine (1965) Leeuwenhoek Medal (1960)
Fields Microbiology
Institutions University of Cambridge Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Pasteur Institute

💰 Net worth

André Lwoff, a renowned Microbiologist from France, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M in 2024. With his expertise and contributions to the field of microbiology, Lwoff has made a name for himself in the scientific community. His pioneering work on bacteriophages and cellular differentiation has significantly advanced our understanding of microbiological processes. Throughout his career, André Lwoff has garnered recognition and numerous accolades for his exceptional research, further solidifying his status as a leading figure in the field.

Biography/Timeline

1932

Lwoff was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France, the son of Marie (Siminovitch), an Artist, and Solomon Lwoff, a Psychiatrist. He joined the 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 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.

1960

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. Throughout his career he partnered with his wife Marguerite Lwoff although he gained considerably more recognition. Lwoff was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1958.

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