Elie Wollman
Elie Wollman · Science & Medicine
Microbiologist who elucidated the mechanism of bacterial conjugation and gene transfer.
1917, Paris, France — 2008, Paris, France
Paris
Elie Wollman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Microbiologist who elucidated the mechanism of bacterial conjugation and gene transfer.
Élie Wollman was a French microbiologist who, working with François Jacob at the Pasteur Institute, elucidated the mechanism of bacterial conjugation and gene transfer, showing that genes transfer in a linear time sequence — a cornerstone of molecular genetics. His parents, both Pasteur scientists, were murdered in the Holocaust. He was Jewish.
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Microbiologist who elucidated the mechanism of bacterial conjugation and gene transfer.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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