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Dr. Andre Lwoff, famous French biologist, will give four public lectures

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during April as Karl Taylor Compton

Lecturer, Dr. Julius A. Stratton, President, announced.

An authority on viruses and genetics, Dr. Lwoff will be the third Compton

Lecturer at M.I. T. The first, Dr. Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, was in residence at M.I. T. in 1957 and the second, Dr. Otto Struve, distinguished

American astronomer, gave a series of lectures last November. The lectureship was established in honor of the late Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, former President and Chairman of the Institute.

The first lecture by Dr. Lwoff, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 at Kresge

Auditorium, will have as its subject "The Living System." The following others are scheduled:

April 12 Hereditary Order: Specificity, Genetic Information and Nucleic Acids.

April 14 w- Functional Order: Control and Regulation of Biosyntheses.

April 20 -- Disorder: Viruses and Viral Functions.

Dr. Lwoff will also participate in two seminars, both to be held in Compton

Lecture Hall at 4 p.m. during April:

April 15 .. Topology and Topography of the Gene: with Dr. Seymour Benser,

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professor of biophysics. M.I.T., chairman.

April 22 .- Viruses and Cellular Control Mechanisms, with Dr. Renato

Dulbecco, professor of biology, California Institute of Technology,

and Dr. Salvador E. Luria, professor of microbiology, M. I. T.,

chairman.

Dr. Lwoff has been associated with the Pasteur Institut - in Paris

throughout his professional career and is head of the Department of Microbial

Physiology. His laboratory has been one of the world's most important centers

for research in biology and his work has influenced many branches of biology.

In recent years his research has concentrated on the genetic and environmental

factors that control the course of virus infection in the human body.

Born in France in 190Z, Dr. Lwoff received M.D. and Sc. D. degrees

from the University of Paris. He is the author of several books and some 250

scientific papers. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

and the Royal Society of London.

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