Jacques 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 mod
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The creative role of chance in evolution: fifty years after Jacques Monod – Club EvMed - Sites@Duke Express
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Jacques Monod, Nobel Biologist, Dies; Thought Existence Is Based on Chance (Published 1976)
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