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François Jacob

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François Jacob

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

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François Jacob was a person born in 1920 who died in 2013. He is recognized as a Nobel Laureate and has been acknowledged in collections associated with the Royal Society, the Academie Francaise, and the American Academy Arts Sciences. His work is documented in the Nobel Medicine collection.

Jacob authored several works, including *The logic of life*, *ha-Logiḳah shel ha-ḥai*, *Ben ha-ratsui ṿeha-matsui*, *ha-Pesel ha-penimi*, and *ʻAl zevuvim, ʻakhbarim ṿa-anashim*. He is associated with the quotes, "The dream of every cell is to become two cells" and "Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer."

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Person · Open Library

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
NO
Active from
1980-07-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A power primer.

    · 1992 · cited 41,556x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,397x

  3. A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales

    · 1960 · cited 31,902x

  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,404x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,756x

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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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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1965

    “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
François
Family name
Jacob
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Nancy
Place of death
14th arrondissement of Paris
Child
Odile Jacob
Occupation
film director
Educated at
Paris Medical Faculty
Employer
Collège de France
Languages spoken
French
Doctoral student
Matthieu Ricard
Field of work
microbiology
Conflict
World War II
Image
François Jacob nobel.jpg
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date of birth
1920-06-17
place of burial
Montparnasse Cemetery
member of
Academia Europaea
date of death
2013-04-20
Commons category
François Jacob
described by source
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
name in native language
François Jacob
birth name
Franck François Louis Jacob
place of detention
Miranda de Ebro
P8168
La Roche-Mabile
interested in
genetics
Sources (5)

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Encyclopedic overview

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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