
French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
François Jacob was a French biologist and geneticist who made groundbreaking discoveries about how genes work and are regulated in living cells. His contributions to understanding genetics earned him the Nobel Prize in 1965, making him one of the most important figures in modern biology.
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François Jacob ( French: [ʒakɔb]; 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.
He wrote popular science, and in 1994 received the inaugural Lewis Thomas Prize.
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