BIOLOGIST

André Michel Lwoff

1902 - 1994

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André Michel Lwoff (8 May 1902 – 30 September 1994) was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Michel Lwoff has received more than 82,411 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. André Michel Lwoff is the 66th most popular biologist (up from 88th in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from France (up from 952nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Biologist.

André Michel Lwoff was a French biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for his discovery of the role of ribosomes in protein synthesis.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, André Michel Lwoff ranks 66 out of 1,097. Before him are Nikolai Vavilov, George Beadle, Adelbert von Chamisso, Trofim Lysenko, Irwin Rose, and Linda B. Buck. After him are August Weismann, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Alexander Oparin, Robert Edwards, Ferdinand Cohn, and Herman Boerhaave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, André Michel Lwoff ranks 30. Before him are Josemaría Escrivá, Arne Jacobsen, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Fritz Strassmann. After him are Alva Myrdal, Juscelino Kubitschek, Marcel Breuer, Harold Lasswell, Émile Benveniste, and Alexander Luria. Among people deceased in 1994, André Michel Lwoff ranks 32. Before him are Guy Debord, Paul Delvaux, Telly Savalas, Domenico Modugno, Robert Doisneau, and George Peppard. After him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Henry Mancini, Sergei Bondarchuk, Gian Maria Volonté, Marija Gimbutas, and Juvénal Habyarimana.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Michel Lwoff ranks 777 out of 6,770. Before him are Eric Cantona (1966), Adélaïde of France (1732), Auguste Mariette (1821), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), Frontinus (30), and Jacques Callot (1592). After him are Jean Nicot (1530), François l'Olonnais (1635), Margaret of Provence (1221), Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932), Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789), and Louis de Montfort (1673).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, André Michel Lwoff ranks 13. Before him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781). After him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), Aimé Bonpland (1773), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737).

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