François Jacob

French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965

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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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Born: 1920
Works: 21

Top works

ha-Logiḳah shel ha-ḥai
The logic of life
Ben ha-ratsui ṿeha-matsui
ha-Pesel ha-penimi
ʻAl zevuvim, ʻakhbarim ṿa-anashim

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Type: Person
Country: NO
Active from: 1980-07-04

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Listeners: 2
Total plays: 3

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5 total works indexed

A power primer.
· 1992 · cited 41,063x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,522x
A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
· 1960 · cited 31,155x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,320x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,392x

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Quotes

“The dream of every cell is to become two cells.”
“Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer.”

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date of birth: 1920-06-17
date of death: 2013-04-20
Commons category: François Jacob
name in native language: François Jacob
birth name: Franck François Louis Jacob
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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.