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Jacob, François was born on June 17, 1920 in Nancy, France. Son of Simon and Therese (Franck) Jacob.
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The Possible and the Actual (Pantheon's Asia Library)
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The Statue Within: An Autobiography
(In a new preface to this special edition of his criticall...)
In a new preface to this special edition of his critically acclaimed memoir, Francois Jacob recalls the events that brought him to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the early 1960's and taught him much about phage biology and the informal ways of American science. Throughout his book, Jacob demonstrates a scientist's eye for detail and a poet's instinct for the inner life, as he tells of a privileged Parisian boyhood, young love, heroism in war, and the fascination of life at the edge of scientific discovery.
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- By Francois Jacob - The Statue Within: An Autobiography (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation S (1988-03-16) Hardcover
- The Possible and the Actual (Pantheon's Asia Library) by Francois Jacob (1982-01-12)
- The Statue within: An Autobiography (Sloan Foundation science series) by Francois Jacob (1989-12-09)
- The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity (In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way our ...)
- Of Flies, Mice, and Men
- The Statue Within: An Autobiography by Francois Jacob (1995-01-01)
François Jacob
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François Jacob, French biologist, educator. Achievements include research in on genetics bacterial cells and viruses; contributor to mechanisms of information transfer (messenger Ribonucleic acid) and genetic basis of regulatory circuits, early stages of the mouse embryo. Recipient Charles Leopold Mayer prize, 1962, Nobel prize in physiology and medicine (with A. Lwoff and J. Monod), 1965.
Education
Doctor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Paris, 1947. Doctor of Science, Faculty of Sciences, Paris, 1954. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1965.
Dr (honorary), various universities.
Career
Assistant, Pasteur Institute, 1950-1956; head department cellular genetics, Pasteur Institute, 1960-1992; president, Pasteur Institute, 1982-1988; professor cellular genetics, College of France, 1964-1992; professor emeritus, College of France and Institute Pasteur, since 1992.
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Works
book
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The Statue Within: An Autobiography
(In a new preface to this special edition of his criticall...)
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The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
( In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way ou...)
- By Francois Jacob - The Statue Within: An Autobiography (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation S (1988-03-16) Hardcover
- The Possible and the Actual (Pantheon's Asia Library) by Francois Jacob (1982-01-12)
- The Statue within: An Autobiography (Sloan Foundation science series) by Francois Jacob (1989-12-09)
- The Possible and the Actual (Pantheon's Asia Library)
- Of Flies, Mice, and Men
- The Statue Within: An Autobiography by Francois Jacob (1995-01-01)
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The Statue Within: An Autobiography
Membership
Member Académie des Sciences (Paris), Académie française Paris. Foreign member Royal Danish Academy Sciences and Letters, American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy Sciences (United States), American Philosophical Society, Royal Society (London), Académie Royale de Society Française Médecine Légale de Belgique, Academy Sciences Hungary, Royal Academy Sciences Madrid.
Connections
Married Lysiane Bloch, November 27, 1947 (deceased 1984). Children: Pierre, Laurent, Odile, Henri. Married Geneviève Barrier, 1999.
