biography
| name: |
Monod, Jacques (Lucien)
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pronunciation:
[monoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–76)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Paris, France. He studied at Paris University, served in the French Resistance during World War 2, then joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He became head of the cellular biochemistry department in 1954, and director in 1971, as well as professor of molecular biology at the Collège de France from 1967. With François Jacob he discovered genes that regulate other genes (operons), for which they shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Andrè Lwoff. |
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