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Jacques Monod

1910 - 1976

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Jacques Lucien Monod (French: [mɔno]; 9 February 1910 – 31 May 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Monod is the 110th most popular chemist (down from 58th in 2019), the 545th most popular biography from France (down from 541st in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Chemist.

Jacques Monod is most famous for his work in the field of molecular biology. He shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 with Francois Jacob and Andre Lwoff for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jacques Monod ranks 110 out of 602Before him are George de Hevesy, Paul J. Crutzen, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Paul Hermann Müller, Odd Hassel, and Yves Chauvin. After him are Irving Langmuir, Manfred Eigen, Melvin Calvin, Avram Hershko, Claude Louis Berthollet, and Gilbert N. Lewis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Jacques Monod ranks 16Before him are Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Hodgkin, Gloria Stuart, Irena Sendler, Jean Genet, and Dominique Pire. After him are Django Reinhardt, Konrad Zuse, David Niven, Walter Schellenberg, Paul Flory, and Kurt Meyer. Among people deceased in 1976, Jacques Monod ranks 21Before him are Yonatan Netanyahu, Eyvind Johnson, Trofim Lysenko, Man Ray, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and Henrik Dam. After him are Benjamin Britten, Lars Onsager, Joachim Peiper, Ulrike Meinhof, J. Paul Getty, and Gustav Heinemann.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Monod ranks 545 out of 6,770Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Louis Aragon (1897), Jean Lannes (1769), John Vianney (1786), and André Frédéric Cournand (1895). After him are Allan Kardec (1804), Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1060), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Édouard Mortier, Duke of Trévise (1768), and Léon Blum (1872).

Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Jacques Monod ranks 12Before him are Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), and Joseph Black (1728). After him are Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838), and Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758).