François Jacob

French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965 · 1920–2013

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François Jacob (French:; 17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) 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 Liberation, the Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre. […]

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Season 4 · 12 Feb 2018#4.5 Angélique (by Nerval)

1:09:22Presented as co-author and co-laureate of the Nobel Prize with Monod.

Season 2 · 18 Feb 2016#2.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?

1:56:43Co-laureate of the Nobel Prize with Monod.