{"id":298915,"date":"2010-02-09T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T21:14:33","slug":"happy-100-jacques-monod-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298915","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100, Jacques Monod | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasteur.fr\/infosci\/archives\/im\/mon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"199\"\/>The great French biologist Jacques Monod would have turned 100 today. I am personally fond of him for having said, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/science-news\/3345320\/E.-coli-why-I-am-in-love-with-a-bacterium.html\">What is true for <em>E. coli <\/em>is true for the elephant<\/a>,&#8221; but he did much more than coin lovely phrases about microbes. His work on how genes switch on and off earned him a <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/1965\/press.html\">Nobel<\/a> in 1965, and he also gave deep thought to the philosophy of biology, seeing it as the interplay of chance and necessity. Here&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/sandwalk.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/good-science-writers-jacques-monod.html\">a blog post from Larry Moran with more<\/a>, and here&#8217;s Monod&#8217;s 1971 book, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0394466152?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0394466152\">Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/dimer.tamu.edu\/simplog\/?blogid=3\">Jim Hu<\/a> for pointing out this auspicious day!]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f2UU1kok6edPnIoyjaMBBDD9gNI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f2UU1kok6edPnIoyjaMBBDD9gNI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f2UU1kok6edPnIoyjaMBBDD9gNI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/f2UU1kok6edPnIoyjaMBBDD9gNI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/KaIFm_txVk4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/uHzP5BlpHlA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great French biologist Jacques Monod would have turned 100 today. I am personally fond of him for having said, &#8220;What is true for E. coli is true for the elephant,&#8221; but he did much more than coin lovely phrases about microbes. His work on how genes switch on and off earned him a Nobel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}