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François Jacob
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complete name  François Jacob
nobel prize  medicine
award year  1965
together with  André Lwoff
together with  Jacques Monod
prize share  Prize share: 1/3
rational  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 was awarded jointly to François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis."
biography  Biography
laureate facts  Facts
laureate lecture  Lecture
given name  François
family name  Jacob
occupation  professor
occupation  university teacher
occupation  physiologist
occupation  biochemist
occupation  geneticist
occupation  autobiographer
field of work  microbiology
work location  Collège de France, Paris, Sorbonne, France
description  François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.
image copyright  Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
image citation  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1965/summary/>
date birth  1920
date death  2013
usual name  François Jacob