The Greatest French Biologists

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1 Luc Montagnier

Famous As: Physician, Biologist, Virologist, Researcher, Professor, Scientist

Birthdate: August 18, 1932

Sun Sign: Leo

Nationality: French

2 Pierre Joliot

Famous As: Biologist, Biochemist, Professor

Birthdate: March 12, 1932

Sun Sign: Pisces

Nationality: French

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3 Alexis Carrel

Famous As: Surgeon, Biologist

Birthdate: June 28, 1873

Sun Sign: Cancer

Nationality: French

Died: November 5, 1944

Nobel Prize-winning French biologist and surgeon Alexis Carrel is remembered for developing a method to suture blood vessels with minimum stitches, to repair them. He also successfully kept tissues alive outside the body for 30 years, in an innovative tissue culture experiment, and worked on organ transplantation.

4 Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Famous As: Biologist

Birthdate: May 24, 1803

Sun Sign: Gemini

Nationality: French

Died: July 29, 1857

5 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Famous As: Virologist

Birthdate: July 30, 1947

Sun Sign: Leo

Nationality: French

6 Jacques Monod

Famous As: Biologist

Birthdate: February 9, 1910

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Nationality: French

Died: May 31, 1976

Jacques Monod was a French biochemist known for his collaborative work with biologist François Jacob and microbiologist André Lwoff on the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. The three men were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965. Monod is also widely regarded as one of the founders of molecular biology.

7 Jean-Henri Fabre

Famous As: Entomologist

Birthdate: December 21, 1823

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Nationality: French

Died: October 11, 1915

8 François Jacob

Famous As: Biologist

Birthdate: June 17, 1920

Sun Sign: Gemini

Nationality: French

Died: April 19, 2013

Nobel Prize-winning French biologist François Jacob is remembered for his discovery of operons, or regulator genes, with Jacques Monod. He had also been part of the French army during World War II. Though initially interested in physics and math, he later took up medicine to avoid a strict regime.