Lwoff

American

[lwawf] / lwɔf /

noun

André 1902–1994, French microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1965.

Lwoff Scientific

/ lwôf /

French microbiologist who studied the genetics of bacterial viruses and explained how they reproduce. His findings have been important in cancer research and in understanding how viruses resist drugs.

Example Sentences

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Lwoff knew that viruses are easier to describe than to define.

From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021

“I shall defend a paradoxical viewpoint,” wrote the French microbiologist André Lwoff in “The Concept of Virus,” an influential essay published in 1957, “namely that viruses are viruses.”

From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021

What actually happens Lwoff found, is not as simple as had been thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it had not been for the presence of Lwoff, the meeting would have flopped totally.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Monod and Jacob knew each other distantly; both were close associates of the microbial geneticist André Lwoff.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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