François Jacob(1920)

Medicine

François Jacob 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.

France
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Major Awards
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Publications
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Citations
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Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis

Pasteur Institute
1965

Most Cited Works

Top publications by citation count
#1

LA SEXUALIT?? DES BACT??RIES

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences(1961)
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Annales de l'Institut Pasteur(1954)
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Annales de l'Institut Pasteur(1954)
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Education

Paris Medical Faculty(doctorate in France)
Lycée Carnot

Doctoral Advisor

Matthieu Ricard

Positions & Roles

chancellorseat 38 of the Académie française

Academy Memberships

National Academy of Sciences (US)American Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican Physical Society Fellow

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