Background
Jacob, François was born on June 17, 1920 in Nancy, France. Son of Simon and Therese (Franck) Jacob.
(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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( In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way ou...)
In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.
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Jacob, François was born on June 17, 1920 in Nancy, France. Son of Simon and Therese (Franck) Jacob.
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.
Assistant Pasteur Institute, 1950—1956, head department cellular genetics, 1960—1992, president, 1982—1988. Professor cellular genetics College of France, 1964—1992. Professor emeritus College of France and Institute Pasteur, since 1992.
(In a new preface to this special edition of his criticall...)
( In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way ou...)
Member of Royal Academy of Sciences Madrid, Academy of Sciences Hungary, Royal Academy Medicine Belgique, Royal Society (London), American Philos Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences (foreign), Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (foreign), Academy Française Paris, Academy of Sciences (Paris).
Married Lysiane Bloch, November 27, 1947 (deceased 1984). Children: Pierre, Laurent, Odile, Henri. Married Geneviève Barrier, 1999.