Lwoff

American  

[lwawf] / lwɔf /

noun

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

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Lwoff Scientific  

/ lwôf /

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

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

From National Geographic

“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

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

From Literature

Later that morning LwofF mentioned that Pauling was coming out for a few hours the next day.

From Literature

Since the main part of our work seemed finished, I saw no reason to postpone a visit which now had the bonus of letting me be the first to tell Ephrussi’s and Lwoff’s labs about the double helix.

From Literature