Origins of Molecular Biology. A Tribute to Jacques Monod

1979 FASCINATING VIGNETTES OF A FOUNDER OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND NOBEL LAUREATE BY HIS COLLEAGUES AND ADVERSARIES, A NUMBER ALSO NOBEL PRIZE RECIPIENTS. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, small ownership label of Dr. R. P. Ambler to top cover, and his signature dated March 1981 to front flyleaf, x, 2pp photos of Monod through his life, 246 pp; binding tight, pages unmarked, very good. FROM THE PREFACE: puring the first phase of his career, Jacques Monod worked alone. In the Institut Pasteur, he attracted a number of scientists. These scientists were asked to narrate their adventure; to relate their experiences with Jacques Monod. Almost all responded with enthusiasm; and most provided the contributions they promised. The result is fascinating. One sees Jacques Monod through the eyes of his technician, his secretary, his peers, his friends, and also of his enemieslove, friendship, and hate. The portraits of Jacques Monodof, better still, images of the manifold aspects of his personalityare often painted with talent. Necessarily, the personality of the contributor appears as a watermark. JACQUES LUCIEN MONOD (1910 - 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with Francois Jacob and Andre Lwoff for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. Study of the control of expression of genes in the lac operon provided the first example of a system for the regulation of transcription. Monod also suggested the existence of messenger RNA molecules that link the information encoded in DNA and proteins. For these contributions he is widely regarded as one of the founders of molecular biology. ANDRE MICHEL LWOFF (1902 - 1964) joined the Institute Pasteur in Paris when he was 19 years old. In 1932, he finished his PhD and, with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research of Heidelberg to Otto Meyerhof, where he did research on the development of flagellates. Another Rockefeller grant allowed him go to the University of Cambridge in 1937. In 1938, he was appointed departmental head at the Institut Pasteur, where he did groundbreaking research on bacteriophages, microbiota and on the poliovirus. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965 for the discovery of the mechanism that some viruses (which he named proviruses) use to infect bacteria. AGNES ULLMANN (1927 - 2019) received her doctorate in microbiology from the University of Budapest. After a research visit to Institut Pasteur in 1958/59 working with Jacques Monod, she moved to France in 1960 with the support of Monod, who smuggled her and her husband over the Austria/Hungary border in a Hungarian caravan. With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation she went to the laboratory of Monod at the Institut Pasteur, where she remained for the rest of her career. PROVENANCE: RICHARD PENREY AMBLER (1933 - 2013) entered the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College) to study Natural Sciences and remained in Cambridge to undertake a PhD in the Department of Biochemistry. Three years of postdoctoral research in Cambridge's MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology followed. In 1965 he joined Edinburgh's newly established Department of Molecular Biology. He was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 1985 and was given a Personal Chair in Protein Chemistry in 1987. He headed the Department of Molecular Biology from 1984 to 1990, and the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology from 1990 to 1993.

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Year: 1979

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