Jacques Lucien Monod (1910-1976)
Born 9 February 1910
Died 31 May 1976
Married 5 September 1938
Odette Bruhl
Born 10 November 1906
Died 17 January 1972
Educated at the University
of Paris, he was a leader of the French
resistance in World War
II. A biologist and author, in 1961 with
Francois Jacob, he proposed
the concepts of messenger RNA and the
operon. For their work they
shared with Andre Lwoff the 1965 Nobel
Prize in physiology or medicine.
In 1970, in "Chance and Necessity",
Monod argued that humans
are products of chance genetic mutations.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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