Jacques Monod

Also known as Jacques Lucien Monod

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

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Jacques Monod was a French biologist and biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work understanding how cells control genes and produce proteins. His discoveries helped explain fundamental mechanisms of life at the molecular level, laying crucial groundwork for modern biology and medicine.

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Works: 26

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On the Philosophy and Religion
Przypadek i konieczność
Hasard et la Nécessité
Le Hasard Et La Nécessité
Chance and Necessity

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Thessaloniki
Active from: 1990

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Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
· 2021 · cited 77,875x
Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
· 2018 · cited 53,557x
Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,166x
Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,549x
Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
· 2024 · cited 18,769x

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Quotes

“The first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature: nature does not have any intention or goal.”
“Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants.”
“The universe is not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. ... Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.”
“If [the emergence of the human species] was unique, as may perhaps have been the appearance of life itself, then before it did appear its chances of doing so were infinitely slender. The universe was not pregnant with life nor the biosphere with man. Our number came up in the Monte Carlo game.”
“What I consider completely sterile is the attitude, for instance, of Bertalanffy who is going around and jumping around for years saying that all the analytical science and molecular biology doesn’t really get to interesting results; let’s talk in terms of general systems theory ... there cannot be anything such as general systems theory, it’s impossible. Or, if it existed, it would be meaningless.”

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name in native language: Jacques Monod
Commons category: Jacques Monod
date of birth: 1910-02-09
date of death: 1976-05-31
birth name: Jacques Lucien Monod

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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.)