Enzymatic cybernetics: An unpublished work by Jacques Monod

Enzymatic cybernetics: an unpublished work by Jacques Monod.

In 1959, Jacques Monod wrote a manuscript entitled Cybernétique enzymatique [Enzymatic cybernetics]. Never published, this unpublished manuscript presents a synthesis of how Monod interpreted enzymatic adaptation just before the publication of the famous papers of the 1960s on the operon. In addition, Monod offers an example of a philosophy of biology immersed in scientific investigation. Monod...

In Memoriam: Jacques Monod (1910–1976)

Jacques Monod, born 100 years ago, was one of the main founders of molecular biology. A quotation of Roger Stanier seems to me of immediate relevance to the topic of this meeting on ‘‘Chance and necessity in evolution,’’ dedicated to the works of Jacques Monod: ‘‘Jacques Monod, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century, will always have an honored place among the leaders of the secon...

Jacques Lucien Monod, 9 February 1910--31 May 1976.

Jacques Monod and Ernest Borek Editors of Microbes and Life

Jacques Monod (1910-1976) and his publications in the "Annales de l'Institut Pasteur".

Between 1942 and 1956, Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology/Medicine, contributed a number of papers to the Annales de l' Institut Pasteur, the ancestor of the journal "Research in Microbiology". Circumstances that led him to publish in the "Annales" are recalled here.