Obituaries

Date:
1976
Reference:
PP/CRI/H/3/5/5
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Credit: Obituaries. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / A OBITUARY PROF JACQUES MONOD Distinguished biochemist Prof essor Jacques Mo nod, the French biochemist who was a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1965, died on May 31 at the age of 66. He was Director-General of the Pasteur Institute. Jacques Lucien Mo nod studied at the University of Paris, graduating in 1931 and receiving his Doctorate of Natural Sciences in 1941. In the intervening years he taught at the univer sity's zoology department and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the California Institute of Technol ogy in 1936. He joined the Pasteur Insti tute ìjn 1945 and became head of Its department of microbial physiology soon after. In 1953 hie had been appointed head of cellular biochemistry and be came professor of metabolic chemistry at the University of Paris Faculty of Sciences in 1957. He hiad been Director of the Pasteur Institute since 1971. The award of the Nobel Prize to him, in conjunction with Dr Francois Jacob and André Lwoff, was for the discovery of a previously unknown class of genes whose function was iden tified to be that of regulating the activity of other genes. Monod, who had also been a professor at the Collège de France was an Officer of the ; Legion of Honour and a Com mander of the French Order of Merit. He had also received an honorary doctorate from Rocke feller University, New York. FR C. S. DESS/