In Monod's studies he discovered that the course work was decades behind the current biological science. He learned from other students a little older than himself, rather than from the faculty. "To George Teissier he owes a

In 1970, Monod published Le hasard et la nécessité – English translation Chance and Necessity (1971) –, a book based on a series of lectures that he had given at Pomona College in

• "The first scientific postulate is the objectivity of nature: nature does not have any intention or goal."
• "Anything found to be true of E. coli must also

• Jacques Monod on Nobelprize.org

In addition to sharing a Nobel Prize, Monod was also a recipient of the Légion d'honneur and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal

Monod was born in Paris to an American mother from Milwaukee, Charlotte (Sharlie) MacGregor Todd, and a French Huguenot father, Lucien Monod, who

• Sean B. Carroll (2014). Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0307952349