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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 80,826 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). André Michel Lwoff is the 89th most popular biologist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 955th most popular biography from France (down from 848th in 2019) and the 16th 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 89 out of 841Before him are Gabriele Falloppio, Jean Dausset, Carolus Clusius, Alfred Hershey, Elizabeth Blackburn, and E. O. Wilson. After him are John Gurdon, Werner Arber, Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, William Carey, and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, André Michel Lwoff ranks 37Before him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Reinhard Gehlen, Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, and Juscelino Kubitschek. After him are Mitsuo Fuchida, Felix Wankel, Fritz Strassmann, Alexandre Kojève, Günther Anders, and Luis Barragán. Among people deceased in 1994, André Michel Lwoff ranks 42Before him are Raul Julia, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Paul Delvaux, Juvénal Habyarimana, Fernando Rey, and György Cziffra. After him are Jeffrey Dahmer, Pujie, Jessica Tandy, Niels Kaj Jerne, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Sergei Bondarchuk.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Michel Lwoff ranks 955 out of 6,011Before him are Marie of France, Countess of Champagne (1145), Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (1889), Thomas Couture (1815), Gilbert Bécaud (1927), and Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789). After him are Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), Marie Laforêt (1939), Jean Anouilh (1910), Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (1654), and Pierre Brice (1929).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, André Michel Lwoff ranks 16Before him are François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), and Carolus Clusius (1525). After him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Aimé Bonpland (1773), and Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968).