BIOLOGIST

François Jacob

1920 - 2013

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François Jacob (French: [ʒakɔb]; 17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Jacob has received more than 250,824 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). François Jacob is the 54th most popular biologist (up from 56th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from France (up from 735th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Biologist.

François Jacob is most famous for his work on the genetic code. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 for his work.

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  • 65.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, François Jacob ranks 54 out of 1,097. Before him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Roger Guillemin, Hugo Theorell, Albert Claude, and Jean-Henri Fabre. After him are Sylvia Earle, Hugo de Vries, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, John Edward Gray, and Nikolai Vavilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, François Jacob ranks 28. Before him are Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Charlie Parker, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Helmut Newton, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. After him are Zecharia Sitchin, Fritz Walter, Clarice Lispector, Montgomery Clift, Walter Matthau, and Douglass North. Among people deceased in 2013, François Jacob ranks 26. Before him are Giuliano Gemma, Donald A. Glaser, Tom Clancy, Jang Song-thaek, Jovanka Broz, and Christian de Duve. After him are Ronald Coase, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Sung Jae-gi, Bert Trautmann, Joan Fontaine, and Richard Griffiths.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Jacob ranks 698 out of 6,770. Before him are Éliphas Lévi (1810), Darius Milhaud (1892), Maurice Allais (1911), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Madame de La Fayette (1634), and Raymond Aron (1905). After him are Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Pierre Loti (1850), Maurice Gamelin (1872), Pierre Bonnard (1867), Alexandre Millerand (1859), and François Ravaillac (1578).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, François Jacob ranks 11. Before him are Charles Richet (1850), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), and Jean-Henri Fabre (1823). After him are Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), and Jean Dausset (1916).

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