Petar Ilievski (1920-2013)

François Jacob (1920–2013)

“Plus que jamais, la recherche me paraissait s’identifier à la nature humaine. En exprimer l’appétit, le désir de vivre. C’était bien le meilleur moyen trouvé par l’homme de braver le chaos de l’univers. De dominer la mort.” (More than ever, scientific research seemed to me to be intrinsic to human nature. It expressed the hunger, the desire to live. It has, in fact, been the best means found b...

Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

François Jacob studied bacteria and bacteriophages at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, in the second half of the twentieth century. In 1965, Jacob won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3] with André M. Lwoff and Jacques L. Monod for their work on the genetic control of enzyme synthesis. Jacob studied how genes [4] control and regulate metabolic enzymes in the bacterium Escherichi...

Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

I knew Francois Jacob only slightly and yet, ever since graduate school, he has been my constant companion. Hardly a week has gone by without my asking him what he would think of this or that result, this or that sentence in a paper, and so on. What he would have thought of this impertinence I cannot say, because I never really let him know—the discussion went on mostly in my head. And so on he...

Emory Guy Simmons 1920-2013.

Early life.—Emory was born 12 April 1920, in Hillsboro, Fountain County, Indiana, the son of Floyd and Estel May McAlister Simmons, the middle child of three girls and two boys. He was very fond of Minnie, his maternal grandmother, called ‘‘Dolly’’ by everyone, who lived with the family. The family moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, before Emory entered school to a home whose former location is ...

In memoriam - Bernard Becker (1920-2013).