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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Example Sentences

Since the 1940s, microbiologists have relied on the "Monod equation" to describe how microbes grow.

From Science Daily

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

At the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art, he flanks a traditional mask from Senegal’s Diola people with ones of his making that mix forms from different regions and unconventional materials like denim.

From New York Times

Domesticated donkeys are easier to keep in captivity as they raise offspring, says Thierry Grange, a geneticist who led the research with Geigl and is also at the Jacques Monod Institute.

From Science Magazine

The relentless ogive of growth fascinated Jacques Monod, the French biologist.

From Literature