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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physiology or Medicine (216) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1965 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1910 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) France (55) Paris (22) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1970s (66) 1976 (8) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) France (51) Cannes (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) J (95) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) M (84) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name E-K (229) J (80) Jacques (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion Irreligion group (86) Atheism (75) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 56 (23) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Life Scientists (181) Biological Scientists (181) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) France (60) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) France (32) Paris (23) Institut Pasteur (6) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) France (92) Paris (73) Collège de France (21) Long-term academic staff (9) University of Paris (50) Alumni (42) Long-term academic staff (21) North America (529) United States (521) Western states (262) California (253) Pasadena (73) California Institute of Technology (73) Short-term academic staff (40) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL (36) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) G (195) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (111) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Carus medal (8) Croix de guerre 1939-1945 (2) G-H (389) G (254) Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer (14) K-L (297) K (173) Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms (2) L (183) Leeuwenhoek Lecture (6) M-N (333) M (172) Marjory Stephenson Prize (4) Médaille de la Résistance (2) O-P (364) O (205) Officer of the Legion of Honour (26) complete name: Jacques Monod nobel prize: medicine award year: 1965 together with: François Jacob together with: André Lwoff 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: Jacques family name: Monod occupation: physician occupation: biologist occupation: biochemist occupation: geneticist occupation: French Resistance fighter field of work: biology work location: Collège de France, Paris, Sorbonne, France notable work: Chance and Necessity description: Jacques Monod was a French biochemist, He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and Andre Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis". Monod (along with François Jacob) became famous for his work on the E. coli lac operon, which encodes proteins necessary for the transport and breakdown of the sugar lactose (lac). From their own work and the work of others, he and Jacob came up with a model for how the levels of some proteins in a cell are controlled. In their model, the manufacture of proteins, such as the ones encoded within the lac (lactose) operon, is prevented when a repressor, encoded by a regulatory gene, binds to its operator, a specific site on the DNA next to the genes encoding the proteins. (It is now known that repressor bound to the operator physically blocks RNA polymerase from binding to the promoter, the site where transcription of the adjacent genes begins.) Study of the control of expression of genes in the lac operon provided the first example of a transcriptional regulation system. Monod also suggested the existence of mRNA molecules that link the information encoded in DNA and proteins. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of molecular biology. Monod's interest in the lac operon originated from his doctoral dissertation, for which he studied the growth of bacteria in culture media containing two sugars. 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: 1910 date death: 1976 usual name: Jacques Monod
