André Lwoff was a French microbiologist whose seminal work in the genetic control of virus synthesis helped guide successive generations of scientists toward a new outlook on cell physiology. Lwoff's primary contributions have come from his...

André Lwoff's seminal work in the genetic control of virus synthesis helped guide successive generations of scientists toward a new outlook on cell physiology. Lwoff's primary contributions have come from his study of the biology of viruses,...

André Michel Lwoff shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with François Jacob and Jaques Monod "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis," and contributing to "our knowledge of the...

The French microbiologist, protozoologist, and geneticist André Lwoff (1902-1994) was influential in the creation of the European Organization of Molecular Biology in 1964. André Lwoff, born May 8, 1902, at Ainay-le-Château...