1910–1976 French molecular biologist who, with F. Jacob, introduced the ‘operon model’ of the regulation of cellular activity.
Keywords: molecular biology; cellular regulation; Jacob; Lwoff; Wollman
Monod, Jacques Lucien
Bernardino Fantini, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002413
| Further Reading | |
| Monod J (1966) From enzymatic adaptation to allosteric transictions (Nobel Lecture). Science 154: 475–483. book [Reprinted in Baltimore D (ed.) (1977) Nobel Lectures in Molecular Biology 1933–1975. New York: Elsevier.] | |
| book Monod J (1970) Le hasard et la nécessité. Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne. Paris: Le Seuil. [Translated by A. Wainhouse as Chance and Necessity, New York, 1971.]. | |
| book Fantini B (1990) "Jacques Lucien Monod". Holmes FL Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 18 supplement II, pp. 636–649. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons | |
| Grmek MD and Fantini B (1982) Le role du hasard dans la naissance du modèle de l'opéron. Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 35: 193–215. | |
| Lwoff A (1977) Jacques Monod, with a complete bibliography of scientific papers. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 23: 405–415. | |
| book Lwoff A and Ullmann A (eds) (1979) Origins of Molecular Biology – A Tribute to Jacques Monod. New York. | |
| Stent GS (1964) The operon: on its third anniversary. Science 144: 816–820. | |
