jacques lucien monod meaning

Noun: Jacques Lucien Monod

1. French biochemist who (with François Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)
   - Monod, Jacques Monod

Type of: biochemist

Encyclopedia: Jacques Lucien Monod

Examples

1. His cousins include the naturalist Th�odore Monod; the industrialist-politician J�r�me Monod; Jacques Lucien Monod, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist; the pharmacologist Daniel Bovet, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine; and the French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard.
2. "' Jacques Lucien Monod "'( 9 February 1910  31 May 1976 ), a biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with Fran�ois Jacob and Andre Lwoff " for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis ".