Très rares sont les français qui ont droit à une nécrologie dans le Lancet.. et nous pouvons ajouter François Jacob dans le numéro du 25 mai 2103. Je retiens deux paragraphes :
“Jacob and Monod were, in my opinion, two of the greatest scientists this world has known”, says Mitchell Lewis, Professor of Biomedical Research and Education at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. Their recognition that a key component of the operon model was a repressor that can respond to a metabolite, and that these effectors could alter the conformation of a protein and regulate transcription, “were two of the most important discoveries in molecular biology”, Lewis says.In 1965, Jacob, Monod, and Lwoff were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”. At the Nobel ceremony, Swedish bacteriologist Sven Gard described how “The group of French workers has opened up a field of research which in the truest sense of the word can be described as molecular biology.”
Nature a publié une nécrologie mais si vous n'êtes pas abonné, il faut payer 16 € !
