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Francois Jacob (1920-2013)

Author(s) -

Mark Ptashne

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.025

Subject(s) - biography , luck , honor , nazism , law , world war ii , classics , psychoanalysis , art history , history , psychology , philosophy , politics , theology , political science , computer science , operating system

I knew Francois Jacob only slightly and yet, ever since graduate school, he has been my constant companion. Hardly a week has gone by without my asking him what he would think of this or that result, this or that sentence in a paper, and so on. What he would have thought of this impertinence I cannot say, because I never really let him know—the discussion went on mostly in my head. And so on hearing of his death at 92 in Paris, I began to ponder again the source of his powers that were—to me, anyway—magical.

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