Jacques Lucien Monod (* 9 February 1910 in Paris, "† 31. May 1976 in Cannes) was a French biochemist.

Life

Monod was the son of a French painter of huguenot descent and its American wife from Milwaukee. 1917 established itself the family in Southern France. There Monod completed the High School in Cannes and decreased/went back 1928 with 18 years to Paris.

During its study George Teissier, Lwoff Boris Ephrussi and Louis Rapkine were its teachers. 1931 terminated Monod its study and went for some time to the Californian institutes OF Technology (late Caltech). With a scholarship of the skirt skin he donation Monod could extend its stay in California something.

1938 again back in Paris, he married the archaeologist and Orientalistin Odette Bruhl. With their it had two sons, Olivier Monod and Philippe Monod.

1959 it accepted a call to the Sorbonne and 1967 changed it to the de France. Of the Rockefeller University in New York Monod was honoured 1970 with the title Dr. h.c. 1971 it was appointed as the director Institut of the Pasteur. During these years Monod as well as Jacob developed the opera on model.

This explained, like the activity by genes be switched on or off can (regularization of the gene activity). it kept 1965 common for it with Jacob and Lwoff the Nobelpreis for physiology and medicine.

At the age of 66 years Professor Dr. Jacques Lucien Monod died to 31. May 1976 in Cannes.

Honours

• 1963 - Officer of the Ehrenlegion
• 1965 - Nobelpreis for physiology and medicine
• 1970 - Honour member of the German academy of the natural scientists Leopoldina

Writings

• Coincidence and necessity. Philosophical questions of modern biology, Munich, Piper, 1971. (Orig.: Le hazard et la Essai sur la philosophy natureal de la biology modern, Paris, Le Seuil, 1970.)

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