Jacques Monod
9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976
Jacques Monod was a French biochemist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Together with François Jacob he proposed the operon model of gene regulation, and he later wrote the influential philosophical essay 'Chance and Necessity'.
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Life events
Jacques Lucien Monod was born in Paris and grew up in the south of France.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied natural sciences at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDuring World War II he was an active member of the French Resistance against the German occupation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he carried out his major research on gene regulation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith François Jacob he described the operon and the concept of messenger RNA, explaining how genes are switched on and off.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the 1965 Nobel Prize with François Jacob and André Lwoff for work on genetic regulation of enzyme synthesis.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe published the influential philosophical essay 'Le Hasard et la Nécessité' on the implications of molecular biology.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died in Cannes from leukemia at the age of 66.
Source: en.wikipedia.org