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François Jacob was a French biologist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis." He and Monod originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. For his work in the French Resistance, he received the Cross of Lib…
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Born 17 June 1920 · Died 19 April 2013 · Q218311
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Died 2013-04-19.
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“Praktycznie wszyscy biolodzy uznają dzisiaj darwinizm współczesny. Ewolucji nie można jednak rozważać tylko w kategoriach organizmów, cząsteczek, czy za pomocą statystycznych abstrakcji. Jest jeszcze wiele innych sposobów rozpatrywania jej natury, jej rytmu, jej mechanizmów.”
Career landmark: chancellor (2007–2011).
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Career landmark: seat 38 of the Académie française (1996–2013).
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Received the inaugural Lewis Thomas Prize
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1993).
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Won Sir Hans Krebs Medal (1982).
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Awarded Leeuwenhoek Lecture (1977).
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Awarded Arnold-Reymond prize (1974).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1973).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965).
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Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1962).
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Won Mendel Medal (1962).
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Jacob and Monod explored the idea that the control of enzyme expression levels in cells is a result of regulation of transcription of DNA sequences
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Monod was watching a film with his wife and told her "I think I’ve just thought up something important
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Studied at Paris Medical Faculty, doctorate in France (1947).
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And returned to now-liberated Paris on 1 August 1944
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Born 1920-06-17.
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