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Article: Andre Lwoff, Nobel Prize Winner, Dies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 4, 1994
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Andre Lwoff, 92, a former scientist at the Pasteur Institute
who was a co-winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine, died in
Paris. The institute, which reported his death, did not report its
cause and said he died "over the weekend."
He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize with geneticist Francois Jacob
and chemist Jacques Monod for their work in cellular biology. All
three French scientists were department heads at the Pasteur
Institute, where they were known as the "three musketeers."
In presenting their Nobel, Sven Gard of the Karolinska
Institute hailed the scientists "for their discoveries concerning
genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
"Action, coordination, variation - ...