François Jacob - The injury that ended my career as a surgeon
2,011 views · Published 17 August 2011 · 2:06 · Indexed 5 October 2026
Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2011 · People & Blogs
To listen to more of François Jacob, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBSb6rIJ0Sg&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFxcUFA9rIQwdpd7L7ayJnKk François Jacob (1920-2013) was a French biochemist whose work focused on understanding how genes are controlled. In 1965, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacque Monod and André Lwoff for his contribution to the field of biochemistry.
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