François Jacob#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 892 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
François Jacob passed away April 19, 2013.
Positions Held
- 1964 Professor at the Collège de France
- 1960 Head of the Department of Cell Genetics
- 1956 Laboratory Director at the Institut Pasteur
- 1954 Doctorate in science at the Sorbonne, with a thesis on «Lysogenic bacteria and the provirus concept»
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetic mechanisms existing in bacteria and bacteriophages
- Molecular developmental biology
- Transcriptional regulation
- Biochemical effects of mutations
Honours and Awards
- Member of Academia Europea
- 1996 Member of the Académie française
- 1996 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
- 1977 Member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris
- 1973 Member of the Royal Society, London
- 1969 Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA
- 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1962 Gran Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer by the Académie des Sciences
