The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965
Awarded on: 1965-10-14
"for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"
Affiliations:
- Institut Pasteur – Paris, France
François Jacob
Born: 1920-06-17 in Nancy, France
Gender: male
Field: French biologist
Biography
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.