François Jacob

Nobel Prize lecture

 

Nobel Lecture December 11, 1965

Genetics of the Bacterial Cell

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1963-1970, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

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