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.Les modalités de la reproduction et le determinisme du sexe chez quelques Nematodes libres. V Nigon - Annales de Sciences Naturelles-Zool. Biol. Anim., 1949Reproductive 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,
Jean-Louis Brun, a student of Nigon, continued experiments on the 'Bergerac' variety of C. elegans.History of research on C. elegans and other free-living nematodes as model organisms. Victor Marc Nigon and Marie-Anne Félix at wormbook.org
The specific epithet given to the nematode species Caenorhabditis nigoni is a tribute to Victor Nigon.
See also History of research on Caenorhabditis elegans
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