Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis". Wikipedia
Born: February 9, 1910, Paris, France
Died: May 31, 1976 (age 66 years), Cannes, France
Children: Philippe Monod
Spouse: Odette Monod-Bruhl (m. 1938–1972)
Education: California Institute of Technology (1936–1937) and University of Paris
Awards: Legion of Honour, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1965), and Fellow of the Royal Society (1968)
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