Victor Marc Nigon (born 11 October 1920 in Metz, France, died 5 July 2015) was a biologist who was first to study the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans in the laboratory, with Ellsworth Dougherty, in the 1940s.[1][2]
Jean-Louis Brun, a student of Nigon, continued experiments on the 'Bergerac' variety of C. elegans.[3]
The specific epithet given to the nematode species Caenorhabditis nigoni is a tribute to Victor Nigon. Victor Nigon has filed for some patents to protect their inventions, which have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).[4]
See also
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edit- ^ Les modalités de la reproduction et le determinisme du sexe chez quelques Nematodes libres. V Nigon - Annales de Sciences Naturelles-Zool. Biol. Anim., 1949
- ^ Reproductive patterns and attempts at reciprocal crossing of Rhabditis elegans maupas, 1900, and Rhabditis briggsae Dougherty and nigon, 1949 (Nematoda: Rhabditidae). Victor Nigon and Ellsworth C. Dougherty, JEZ-A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 112, Issue 3, December 1949, Pages 485–503, doi:10.1002/jez.1401120307
- ^ History of research on C. elegans and other free-living nematodes as model organisms. Victor Marc Nigon and Marie-Anne Félix at wormbook.org
- ^ "patents justia".
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