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François Jacob. 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.
- 19 April 2013 (aged 92), Paris, France
- 17 June 1920, Nancy, France
- University of Paris
- Operon model
Apr 15, 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. Jacob received an M.D. degree (1947) and a doctorate in science (1954 ...
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Apr 26, 2013 · François Jacob was born on June 17, 1920, in Nancy, France. ... Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: François Jacob, Geneticist Who Pointed To How Traits Are Inherited, Dies at 92.
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. Jacob managed to get out of Paris and eventually join Charles de Gaulle in England.
Apr 21, 2013 · I hope this passage gives a sense of what he was like–. 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 ...
May 22, 2013 · Jacob was born in 1920 in Nancy, northeastern France, to a middle-class Jewish family. He studied at the Lycée Carnot in Paris and went to medical school with the intention of becoming a surgeon.
Apr 25, 2013 · Thu 25 Apr 2013 12.32 EDT. François Jacob, who has died aged 92, was awarded the 1965 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine as a result of his perceptive model of gene function in bacteria. Based ...
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