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BIOLOGIST

François Jacob

1920 - 2013

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François Jacob (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 238,319 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). François Jacob is the 56th most popular biologist (down from 55th in 2019), the 736th most popular biography from France (up from 752nd in 2019) and the 10th 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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  • 55

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  • 9.60

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, François Jacob ranks 56 out of 841. Before him are Peter Simon Pallas, Nikolai Vavilov, Hugo de Vries, Vladimir Vernadsky, Adelbert von Chamisso, and Jean-Henri Fabre. After him are Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, Hugo Theorell, Stanley B. Prusiner, Ernst Mayr, and Hermann Joseph Muller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, François Jacob ranks 33. Before him are Helmut Newton, John Demjanjuk, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ravi Shankar, Douglass North, and Nicolaas Bloembergen. After him are Clarice Lispector, Gene Tierney, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Mickey Rooney, Fritz Walter, and Timothy Leary. Among people deceased in 2013, François Jacob ranks 29. Before him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Douglas Engelbart, Georges Moustaki, Nílton Santos, Don Shirley, and Rochus Misch. After him are Donald A. Glaser, Jang Song-thaek, Erich Priebke, Richard Griffiths, Jovanka Broz, and Boris Berezovsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Jacob ranks 736 out of 6,011. Before him are Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), Rudolph of France (890), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Maurice Blanchot (1907), Célestin Freinet (1896), and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824). After him are Thierry Mugler (1948), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703), Victor of Aveyron (1793), Joanna of Bourbon (1338), and Anne of Foix-Candale (1484).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, François Jacob ranks 10. Before him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Charles Richet (1850), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), and Jean-Henri Fabre (1823). After him are Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), Carolus Clusius (1525), and André Michel Lwoff (1902).

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