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François Jacob (17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.
François Jacob has been awarded a number of French scientific prizes, notably the Charles Léopold Mayer prize by the Académie des Sciences (1962). He is a foreign member of the Danish Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (1962), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964), the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (1969), and ...
Apr 19, 2013 · François Jacob. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965. Born: 17 June 1920, Nancy, France. Died: 19 April 2013, Paris, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis” Prize share: 1/3. Work.
Jun 13, 2024 · François Jacob (born June 17, 1920, Nancy, France—died April 19, 2013, Paris) was a French biologist who, together with André Lwoff and Jacques Monod, was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning regulatory activities in bacteria.
François Jacob is not only a scientist at heart, but also a firm believer in the progress of science and a committed, passionate, and profound humanist. François Jacob’s original vocation was surgery and he began his medical studies in Paris, which were soon interrupted by the war.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 was awarded jointly to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"
May 24, 2013 · François Jacob was born in 1920 in Nancy, France. His journey from a bourgeois Parisian life as a medical student to his immersion in phage genetics with André Lwoff at the Institut Pasteur included a hiatus imposed by the invasion of France by Nazi Germany.
Apr 26, 2013 · Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in...
May 22, 2013 · François Jacob helped to answer a question that had been troubling geneticists for more than 30 years: how do the various tissues of multicellular organisms express different sets of genes when...
Apr 21, 2013 · One day in July 1958, François Jacob squirmed in a Paris movie theater. His wife, Lise, could tell that an idea was struggling to come out. The two of them walked out of the theater and headed...
