Awards & Winners

François Jacob

Date of Birth 17-June-1920
Place of Birth Nancy
(Arrondissement of Nancy, Lorraine, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France)
Nationality France
Also know as Francois Jacob, François Jacob
Profession Scientist
François Jacob was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.

Awards by François Jacob

Check all the awards nominated and won by François Jacob.

1965


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis)