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    François Jacob (17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels...
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  • than they are today. In his seminal article 'Evolution and Tinkering', François Jacob first introduced the idea of tinkering to a broad audience of scientists...
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    conversation with François Jacob. In 1961, mRNA was identified and described independently by one team consisting of Brenner, Jacob, and Matthew Meselson...
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    François Jacques Le Fort also spelled Lefort (Russian: Франц Яковлевич Лефорт, tr. Frants Yakovlevich Lefort; January 2(12), 1656 – March 2(12), 1699)...
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    Lac operon (redirect from Jacob-Monod model)
    classes for this reason. This lactose metabolism system was used by François Jacob and Jacques Monod to determine how a biological cell knows which enzyme...
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    sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis". Monod and Jacob became famous...
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    considered to be the identification in 1961 of the lac operon, discovered by François Jacob and Jacques Monod, in which some enzymes involved in lactose metabolism...
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  • replicons[citation needed]. The concept of the replicon was formulated in 1963 by François Jacob, Sydney Brenner, and Jacques Cuzin as a part of their replicon model...
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    proteins are used to create genetic operons, which were identified by François Jacob and Jacques Monod in 1961 as feedback loops. These feedback loops may...
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    that DNA is replicated semi-conservatively. In addition, Meselson, François Jacob, and Sydney Brenner discovered the existence of messenger RNA in 1961...
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    Légion d'Honneur for his work in the medical field. Olivennes, Pr. François. "Pr. François Olivennes on about.me". About.me. Retrieved 7 January 2018. "Institutionnel...
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    genetic material to be realized as a protein was first hypothesized by François Jacob and Jacques Monod. Severo Ochoa won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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    Shin'ichirō Tomonaga; Julian Schwinger; Richard Feynman Robert Burns Woodward François Jacob; André Michel Lwoff; Jacques Monod Mikhail Sholokhov United Nations...
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  • of the prize, awarded first for the year 1993 to Thomas, have been: François Jacob (for 1994) Abraham Pais (for 1995) Freeman Dyson (for 1996) Max Perutz...
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    la lune de nickel) is a 2017 Canadian documentary film, directed by François Jacob. The film profiles history and culture of the isolated Russian mining...
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    Charles Nicolle (M.D) – 1928 [PM] Charles Richet (M.D, DSc) – 1913 [PM] François Jacob (M.D) – 1965 [PM] Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (PhD) – 2008 [PM] Jacques...
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  • In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the French molecular biologists François Jacob and Jacques Monod became the first to explain enzyme induction, in the...
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  • coli. The 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff and Jacques Monod for their discoveries concerning...
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  • leader Edward Jacob (c. 1710–1788), British scholar and politician Ephraim Arnold Jacob (1845–1905), American lawyer and judge François Jacob (1920–2013)...
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    François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770–1841) oversaw one of the most successful and influential furniture workshops in Paris, from 1796 to 1825...
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    company. François Dalle was the son of Joseph Dalle, a brewer in Hesdin in Pas-de-Calais, and Jeanne Dalle, née Dumont. As a law student François Dalle lived...
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    racing driver François-Benoît Hoffman (1760–1828), playwright and critic. Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855), painter. François Jacob (1920–2013), biologist...
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    Jacob François Marulaz or Marola, born 6 November 1769, died 10 June 1842, joined the Army of the Kingdom of France as a cavalry trooper and rose to become...
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    of isogenic human disease models. The term episome was introduced by François Jacob and Élie Wollman in 1958 to refer to extra-chromosomal genetic material...
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    "Evolution and Tinkering" by François Jacob. Gould laid to rest Haeckel's interpretation of evolutionary embryology, while Jacob set out an alternative theory...
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    the mind and thought. She is a member of Le Siècle. Odile Jacob's father, François Jacob (17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013), was a French biologist, who...
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  • Chemistry, 1970 René Cassin, Peace, 1968 Alfred Kastler, Physics, 1966 François Jacob, Physiology or Medicine, 1965 Jacques Monod, Physiology or Medicine...
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  • by J. E. Gordon (1968) The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity by François Jacob (1976) Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective by...
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    Jacques Monod – Professor – Nobel in Physiology and Medicine – 1965 François Jacob – Professor – Nobel in Physiology and Medicine – 1965 Charles Nicolle...
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    fatty acid metabolism" Feodor Lynen (1911–1979)  West Germany 1965 François Jacob (1920–2013)  France "for their discoveries concerning genetic control...
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