Francois Jacob was a French biologist, born in Nancy in 1920 and died in Paris in 2013, known for developing the operon model, which explained how the genes controlling enzyme production in cells are regulated at the level of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques Monod and Andre Lwoff for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Jacob later received the inaugural Lewis Thomas Prize in 1994 for science writing and was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1996.
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17 June 1920 - 19 April 2013) was a French biologist.
Early life
Jacob was born the only child of Simon, a merchant, and Thérèse (Franck) Jacob, in Nancy, France.
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