François Jacob
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Professors François Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod had been working together for several years in the research department of the Pasteur Institute when, on 14 October 1965, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The group met the journalists and photographers in the garden outside the institute (from left: Lwoff, Monod and Jacob).
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Nobel Prizes 2019
Fifteen laureates were awarded in 2019, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
Their work and discoveries range from how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen to our ability to fight global poverty.
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Their work and discoveries range from how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen to our ability to fight global poverty.
See them all presented here.
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