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André Lwoff - Biography (694 words) |
 | André Michel Lwoff was born on 8 May 1902 in Ainay-le-Château (Allier). |
| Then in 1936, again with the aid of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Lwoff and his wife spent seven months in Cambridge in the laboratory of David Keilin; factor V, which is required by Haemophilus influenzae, was identified with cozymase and its physiological role for the bacterium was defined. |
| Dr. Lwoff was appointed Head of the Department at the Institut Pasteur in 1938, and Professor of Microbiology at the Science Faculty in Paris in 1959. |
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André Michel Lwoff Biography / Biography of André Michel Lwoff World of Genetics Biography (1453 words) |
| Lwoff's primary contributions have come from his study of the biology of viruses, including the genetics of bacteria and the mechanisms of viral infection and replication. |
| Lwoff was born in Ainay-le-Château, in central France to Russian immigrant parents. |
| Lwoff exhibited remarkable dexterity and skill in the extremely difficult procedure of growing individual bacteria in a microdrop and then fishing out the newly divided bacteria with a capillary pipette--only a few microns in diameter--without contaminating the specimen. |
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