Monod

American  

[maw-noh] / mɔˈnoʊ /

noun

1. Jacques 1910–76, French chemist: Nobel Prize 1965.

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Monod Scientific  

/ mô-nō′ /

1. French biochemist who, with François Jacob, proposed the existence of messenger RNA. Monod and Jacob also studied how genes control cellular activity by directing the synthesis of proteins.

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Monod

By the 1890s, “millions of Americans go out to vaudeville shows every week,” says Monod.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

However, the Monod equation assumes that only one nutrient or biochemical reaction limits growth at a time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

Starting in the late 1990s, Baker—who has co-founded companies in this space including Cyrus, Monod and Arzeda —oversaw the development of Rosetta, a foundational software suite for predicting and manipulating protein structures.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 28, 2023

“These animals must have been very special,” says Eva-Maria Geigl, a geneticist at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 13, 2022

A few academics like Jacques Monod and Sol Spiegelman were enthusiastic speakers, but generally there was so much droning that he found it hard to stay alert for the new facts he should pick up.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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