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François Jacob
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François Jacob

1920 – 2013 · aged 93

French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965

Born
17 Jun 1920 · Nancy
Died
20 Apr 2013 · 14th arrondissement of Paris

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 17 Jun 1920BornBorn in Nancy
  2. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  3. 1962AwardGrand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
  4. 1962AwardMendel Medal
  5. 1965AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  6. 1973AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  7. 1974AwardArnold-Reymond prize
  8. 1977AwardLeeuwenhoek Lecture
  9. 1982AwardSir Hans Krebs Medal
  10. 1993AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Valencia
  11. 1996 – 2013RoleMember of the Académie française
  12. 2007 – 2011RoleChancellor
  13. 20 Apr 2013DiedDied in 14th arrondissement of Paris

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1920 – 2013).

  1. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  2. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  3. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  4. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  5. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  6. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1938Munich Agreement
  8. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

François Jacob (French: [ʒakɔb]; 17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis". He and Monod originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. For his work in the French Resistance, he received the Cross of Liberation, the Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre.

He wrote popular science, and in 1994 received the inaugural Lewis Thomas Prize.

Text from the Wikipedia article François Jacob, CC BY-SA 4.0

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