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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André Michel Lwoff is the 53rd most popular biologist (up from 66th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from France (up from 777th in 2019) and the 7th 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 53 out of 1,097. Before him are Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Tomas Lindahl, Irwin Rose, Charles Richet, and Lazzaro Spallanzani. After him are Karl Ernst von Baer, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, François Jacob, Roger Guillemin, Theodor Schwann, and Hugo Gunckel Lüer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, André Michel Lwoff ranks 21. Before him are Fernand Braudel, Alfred Kastler, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, and Talcott Parsons. After him are Josemaría Escrivá, Alva Myrdal, William Wyler, Margaret Hamilton, Nâzım Hikmet, and Andrew Irvine. Among people deceased in 1994, André Michel Lwoff ranks 24. Before him are Kurt Cobain, Harry Nilsson, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Melina Mercouri, and Andrei Chikatilo. After him are Léon Degrelle, John Wayne Gacy, Paul Feyerabend, Mas Oyama, Domenico Modugno, and Billy Wright.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Michel Lwoff ranks 548 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Lannes (1769), John Vianney (1786), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Jacques Monod (1910), Allan Kardec (1804), and Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060). After him are Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768), Léon Blum (1872), Isabelle Huppert (1953), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), and Maurice Béjart (1927).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, André Michel Lwoff ranks 7. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Luc Montagnier (1932), and Charles Richet (1850). After him are Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Jean Dausset (1916), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781).

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