She married the son of family friends, Eugène Wollman, and moved with him to Paris, where he began his career at the Pasteur Institute.

Pioneers in the field of molecular genetics, the Wollmans collaborated for two decades on work that lay critical groundwork for understanding viruses, cancer, and HIV.

In December 1943, the couple were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they died soon after arrival, presumably murdered in gas chambers.

[1] Both were Jewish, and moved to Belgium to study, with Michelis gaining a degree in physics and mathematics at the University of Liège.

Nadine Marty became a physicist and professor, serving as the director of a division of the nuclear physics institute of Université de Paris Sud.

Nadine had married fellow physicist Claude Marty by then, and the couple worked for Frédéric Joliot-Curie (Marie Curie's son-in-law).

[13] As both Wollman and her husband both died in Auschwitz concentration camp on 22 December 1943,[14] it is assumed they were among those murdered in the gas chambers.

A former young student at the Pasteur Institute, André Lwoff, intending to show the importance of the Wollmans' findings.

[10] One of his joint Nobel prize recipients, François Jacob, had been collaborating on lysogeny studies with the Wollmans' son, Élie.

[18][19] A plaque in memory of Elisabeth, Eugène, and Élie Wollman was unveiled at the Émile-Roux pavilion of the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 2009.

[2] An Elisabeth Wollman archive is held at the Pasteur Institute, including personal correspondence and administrative records, as well as a scientific notebook.