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1910 – 1976Jacques Monod (1910-1976)Died 31 May 1976, aged 66Jacques Monod, the French biochemist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries in gene regulation, died in Cannes. His work with Francois Jacob established the operon model explaining how genes are switched on and off. He was also known as the author of the philosophical work Chance and Necessity.