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Also Known As Jacques Lucien Monod
Born February 9, 1910 • Paris • France
Died May 31, 1976 (aged 66) • Cannes • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1965)
Subjects Of Study gene regulation • messenger RNA • operon • repression
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
François Jacob, 1965.
François Jacob
French biologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist
Theorell
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
Swedish biochemist
Feodor Lynen
German biochemist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist
Phillip A. Sharp, 1993.
Phillip A. Sharp
American physiologist
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
Rothman, James E.
James E. Rothman
American biochemist and cell biologist
Gerald Maurice Edelman
Gerald Maurice Edelman
American physical chemist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Har Gobind Khorana
American biochemist
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist