François Jacob, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965: Official interview

Interview with Professor François Jacob by Joanna Rose, science writer, 8 December 2001.

Professor Jacob talks about the experience of (0:00) going from "completely unknown to too much known" when the Pasteur Group was awarded the Nobel Prize. He talks about how he got into sciences in 1950 (1:56) and about his colleagues André Lwoff and Jacques Monod (5:48). He also shares his thoughts about the development of biology since 1950 (11:12).