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Jacques Monod

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Jacques Monod

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Also known as Jacques Lucien Monod

French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)

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Jacques Monod (1910–1976) was a male figure associated with electronic, psychedelic, and psytrance music, originating from Thessaloniki. He is recognized in collections for the Royal Society, the American Academy Arts Sciences, and Nobel Laureates, specifically within the Nobel Medicine category. Monod has received one Nobel Prize.

As an author, he has 26 works listed, including *On the Philosophy and Religion*, *Przypadek i konieczność*, *Hasard et la Nécessité*, *Le Hasard Et La Nécessité*, and *Chance and Necessity*. Crossref records five of his works. His writings include the statements that the first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature, as nature has no intention or goal, and that anything found to be true of *E. coli* must also be true of elephants.

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Person · Open Library

Works
26

Top works

  • On the Philosophy and Religion
  • Przypadek i konieczność
  • Hasard et la Nécessité
  • Le Hasard Et La Nécessité
  • Chance and Necessity

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Thessaloniki
Active from
1990
electronicpsychedelicpsytrance

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
29
Total plays
125

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries

    · 2021 · cited 79,310x

  2. Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

    · 2018 · cited 53,843x

  3. Global cancer statistics

    · 2011 · cited 23,192x

  4. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

    · 2014 · cited 21,631x

  5. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

    · 2024 · cited 20,792x

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Quotes

  • “The first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature: nature does not have any intention or goal.”
  • “Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants.”
  • “The universe is not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. ... Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.”
  • “If [the emergence of the human species] was unique, as may perhaps have been the appearance of life itself, then before it did appear its chances of doing so were infinitely slender. The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game.”
  • “What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of Bertalanffy who is going around and jumping around for years saying that all the analytical science and molecular biology doesn’t really get to interesting results; let’s talk in terms of general systems theory ... there cannot be anything such as general systems theory, it’s impossible. Or, if it existed, it would be meaningless.”

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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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Encyclopedic overview

Jacques Lucien Monod ( French: [mɔno]; 9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) 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"

Monod and Jacob became famous for their work on the E. coli lac operon, which encodes proteins necessary for the transport and breakdown of the sugar lactose (lac). From their own work and the work of others, they came up with a model for how the levels of some proteins in a cell are controlled. In their model, the manufacture of a set of related proteins, such as the ones encoded within the lac (lactose) operon, is prevented when a repressor protein, encoded by a regulatory gene, binds to its operator, a specific site in the DNA sequence that is close to the genes encoding the proteins. (It is now known that a repressor bound to an operator physically blocks RNA polymerase from binding to the promoter, the site where transcription of the adjacent genes begins.)

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