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Dr. Fran\u00e7ois Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how genes are regulated, died on April 19 in Paris. He was 92.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jacob said he had been watching a dull movie with his wife, Lysiane, in 1958 when he began daydreaming and was struck with an idea of how genes might function. \u201cI think I\u2019ve just thought up something important,\u201d he told her.<\/p>\n

Seven years later, Dr. Jacob shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Jacques Monod<\/a> and Dr. Andr\u00e9 Lwoff,<\/a> his colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, for their discovery that cells can switch on and switch off certain genetic information. Their work, which focused on bacteria, increased understanding of how genes could be selectively deployed by an organism. \u201cThey\u2019re all there in the egg. But how does the egg know when to turn from one type of cell type to another?\u201d Richard Burian, a professor emeritus of philosophy and science studies at Virginia Tech, said of the question asked by Dr. Jacob and his colleagues. \u201cThere must be some kind of signal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Jacob, Geneticist Who Pointed to How Traits Are Inherited, Dies at 92 – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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