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Jacques Monod
Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"
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science · French biochemist (1910–1976) · biochemist · geneticist · physician · French resistance fighter · molecular biologist · microbiologist · also Jacques Monod, Jacques Lucien Monod, Monod
Born 9 February 1910 · Died 31 May 1976 · Q231402
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1976· 4 entries
Died 1976-05-31.
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Jacques Monod died of leukemia in 1976 and was buried in the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes on the French Riviera.
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“A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.”
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And was buried in the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes on the French Riviera
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1973· 1 entry
Jacques Monod was one of the signatories of the Humanist Manifesto II
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1971· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1971–1976).
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1970· 1 entry
Monod published Le hasard et la nécessité – English translation Chance and Necessity (1971) –, a book based on a series of lectures that he had given at Pomona College in 1969
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Leeuwenhoek Lecture (1969).
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Awarded Marjory Stephenson Prize (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1968).
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1965· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
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Won Carus medal (1965).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (1962).
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Montyon Science Award (1955).
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-02-09.
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