André Michel Lwoff
André- Michael Lwoff ( born May 8, 1902 in Ainay -le- Château, Allier, France, † September 30, 1994 in Paris) was a French microbiologist and virologist. Lwoff 1962 led a taxonomy of viruses.
In 1965 he received along with François Jacob and Jacques Monod the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of the synthesis of enzymes and viruses ."
Lwoff in 1974 became the first president of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies.
His name also carries the bacterium Acinetobacter lwoffii ( genus Acinetobacter ).