monod

noun

1. Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/, 1910–76, French chemist: Nobel prize 1965.

1. French biochemist. He shared a 1965 Nobel Prize for the study of regulatory activity in body cells.

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.