Monod
[ maw-noh ]
/ mɔˈnoʊ /
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noun
Jacques [zhahk], /ʒɑk/, 1910–76, French chemist: Nobel prize 1965.
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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?
First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.
First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.
First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.
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Monod
[ mô-nō′ ]
French biochemist. He shared a 1965 Nobel Prize for the study of regulatory activity in body cells.
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Monod
[ mô-nō′ ]
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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