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Jacques Monod

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Also known as Jacques Lucien Monod

French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)

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Jacques Monod (1910–1976) was a male figure associated with electronic, psychedelic, and psytrance music, originating from Thessaloniki. He is recognized in collections for the Royal Society, the American Academy Arts Sciences, and Nobel Laureates, specifically within the Nobel Medicine category. Monod has received one Nobel Prize.

As an author, he has 26 works listed, including *On the Philosophy and Religion*, *Przypadek i konieczność*, *Hasard et la Nécessité*, *Le Hasard Et La Nécessité*, and *Chance and Necessity*. Crossref records five of his works. His writings include the statements that the first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature, as nature has no intention or goal, and that anything found to be true of *E. coli* must also be true of elephants.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1965

    “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lucien
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
17th arrondissement of Paris
Place of death
Cannes
Occupation
physician
Position held
director
Employer
Pasteur Institute
Political party
French Communist Party
Languages spoken
French
Religion
atheism
Notable work
Monod equation
Student of
Boris Ephrussi
Doctoral student
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Field of work
birth control
Conflict
World War II
Image
Jacques Monod 1971.jpg
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name in native language
Jacques Monod
place of burial
Cannes (Grand Jas) Cemetery
Commons category
Jacques Monod
date of birth
1910-02-09
date of death
1976-05-31
different from
Jacques Monod
cause of death
leukemia
partner in business or sport
Agnès Ullmann
birth name
Jacques Lucien Monod
place of detention
Miranda de Ebro
manner of death
natural causes
interested in
biochemistry
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Jacques Lucien Monod ( French: [mɔno]; 9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) was a French biochemist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"

Monod and Jacob became famous for their 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, they came up with a model for how the levels of some proteins in a cell are controlled. In their model, the manufacture of a set of related proteins, such as the ones encoded within the lac (lactose) operon, is prevented when a repressor protein, encoded by a regulatory gene, binds to its operator, a specific site in the DNA sequence that is close to the genes encoding the proteins. (It is now known that a repressor bound to an operator physically blocks RNA polymerase from binding to the promoter, the site where transcription of the adjacent genes begins.)

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