François Jacob

thumb|François Jacob 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. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff. Quotes The dream of every cell is to become two cells. Originated from paraphrase of a paragraph in Chance and Necessity (1970, p20) by Jacques Monod: They not only obey them; they utilize them as a good engineer would, with maximum efficiency, to carry out the project and bring about the "dream" (as François Jacob put it) of every cell: to become two cells. Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. Evolution and tinkering (1977) External links Category:1920 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Academics from France Category:Biologists from France Category:Chemists from France Category:Atheists from France Category:Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Category:Nobel laureates from France Category:Jews from France