François Jacob

François Jacob

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965

Institut Pasteur

“for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”

François Jacob was a French biologist at the Institut Pasteur. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. His work helped establish the operon model of gene regulation.

Field
Biology · Genetics
Lifespan
1920–2013