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Jacob, François

25 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Jacob, François (biographical name)
  2. Jacob (noun)
  3. Jacob ben Asher (biographical name)
  4. Alfasi, Isaac ben Jacob (biographical name)
  5. Astor, John Jacob (biographical name)
  6. Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, Baron (biographical name)
  7. Burckhardt, Jacob (Christopher)
  8. Camerarius, Rudolph (Jacob)
  9. Epstein, Sir Jacob (biographical name)
  10. Frank, Jacob (biographical name)
  11. Gershwin, George (biographical name)
  12. Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jacob (biographical name)
  13. Lawrence, Jacob (biographical name)
  14. Leisler, Jacob (biographical name)
  15. Lipchitz, Jacques (biographical name)
  16. Offenbach, Jacques (biographical name)
  17. Perkins, Jacob (biographical name)
  18. Pissarro, (Jacob-Abraham-) Camille (biographical name)
  19. Riis, Jacob A(ugust)
  20. Ruisdael, Jacob (Isaakszoon) van (biographical name)
  21. Schiff, Jacob H(enry)
  22. Schleiden, Mathias Jacob (biographical name)
  23. Shaw, Artie (biographical name)
  24. Zuma, Jacob (biographical name)
  25. Jordaens, Jacob

Jacob, François

biographical name

(born June 17, 1920, Nancy, France) French biologist. After receiving his doctorate, he went to work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Beginning in 1958, he worked with Jacques Monod studying the regulation of bacterial enzyme synthesis. They discovered regulator genes, so called because they control the activities of other genes. Jacob and Monod also proposed the existence of an RNA messenger, a partial copy of DNA that carries genetic information to other parts of the cell. The two men shared a 1965 Nobel Prize with André Lwoff.

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