François Jacob(1920)
MedicineFrançois 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
1965for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Pasteur InstituteMost Cited Works
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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences1961
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Annales de l'Institut Pasteur1954
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Annales de l'Institut Pasteur1954
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Co-winners
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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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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2025)
KK
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Gruber Prize in Neuroscience (2024)
VA
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2024)
GR
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2024)
DW
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2023)
SP
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2022)
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