Jacques Monod’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Monsieur le Président, Mesdames, Messieurs. L’intention profonde de votre illustre Fondateur n’était pas tant, semble-t-il, de distinguer certains hommes, que de consacrer aux yeux de tous les hommes les plus hautes valeurs de leur culture : la Paix,…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965 Interaction among Virus, Cell, and Organism An organism is an integrated system of interdependent structures and functions. An organism is constituted of cells, and a cell consists of molecules which must work in harmony. Each molecule must know what the others are doing. Each one must be capable of receiving…

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965 From Enzymatic Adaption to Allosteric Transitions Pdf 151 kB

André Lwoff’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs. C’est la recherche qui m’a conduit ici et la recherche, on le sait, est un jeu. Montaigne déjà faisait mention de ” cette passion studieuse qui nous amuse à la poursuite des choses et de l’acquêt…

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  Nobel Lecture December 11, 1965 Genetics of the Bacterial Cell Pdf 363 kB Pdf 5.53 MB

François Jacob’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1965 (in French) Sire, Altesses Royales, Mesdames, Messieurs. Je vous exprime ma profonde gratitude pour la distinction dont vous m’honorez aujourd’hui. Chacun de nous, à vingt ans, a rêvé de transformer le monde. Chacun de nous, à quarante ans, sait qu’il ne le fera…

Interview transcript Welcome to the Nobel interview, Professor François Jacob. You have written earlier that the Nobel Prize has changed your life, not only in a positive way, you also realised that it put some kind of burden on your back. François Jacob: The group we had in the Pasteur Institute with…

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