Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

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...

Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins.

Francois Jacob Born 1920 in Nancy, France. Completed M.D. degree (1947) at Faculty of Paris, and a obtained doctorate in Science (1954) at the Sorbonne. Joined Institute Pasteur as research assistant (1950), under Dr. André Lwoff. Appointed Laboratory Director (1956) and Head of Dept. of Cell Genetics (1960). Began collaboration with Monod (1958) at Institute Pasteur. In 1964 became a Professor...

19 April 2013 − − François Jacob . 17 June 1920

Molecular Biology Through Discovery

Last week we eavesdropped on a meeting March 1960 in Sydney Brenner's apartment, in which Francois Jacob recounted recent results from Institut Pasteur. It was called Part I (Crick's Story), because I envisioned three parts: Part I. The world as seen through the eyes of Francis Crick, focusing on his view of an article by Belozersky and Spirin Part II. The world as seen through the eyes of Fran...

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...