Microcosm (2008)
“His wife, Lise, could tell that an idea was struggling to come out. The two of them walked out of the theater and headed for home.
“I think I’ve just thought up something important,” François said to Lise.
“Tell!” she said.
Her husband believed, as he later wrote, that he had reached “the very essence of things.” He had gotten a glimpse of how genes work together to make life possible.
Jacob had been hoping for a moment like this for a long time. Originally trained as a surgeon, he had fled Par...is when the Nazis swept across France. For the next four years he served in a medical company in the Allied campaigns, mostly in North Africa. Wounds from a bomb blast ended his plans of becoming a surgeon, and after the war he wandered Paris unsure of what to do with his life. Working in an antibiotics lab, Jacob became enchanted with scientific research. But he did not simply want to find a new drug. Jacob decided he would try to understand “the core of life.” In 1950, he joined a team of biologists at the Pasteur Institute who were toiling away on E.MoreLess
“I think I’ve just thought up something important,” François said to Lise.
“Tell!” she said.
Her husband believed, as he later wrote, that he had reached “the very essence of things.” He had gotten a glimpse of how genes work together to make life possible.
Jacob had been hoping for a moment like this for a long time. Originally trained as a surgeon, he had fled Par...is when the Nazis swept across France. For the next four years he served in a medical company in the Allied campaigns, mostly in North Africa. Wounds from a bomb blast ended his plans of becoming a surgeon, and after the war he wandered Paris unsure of what to do with his life. Working in an antibiotics lab, Jacob became enchanted with scientific research. But he did not simply want to find a new drug. Jacob decided he would try to understand “the core of life.” In 1950, he joined a team of biologists at the Pasteur Institute who were toiling away on E.MoreLess
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