I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.
[ON HIS NOBEL PRIZE WORK - GENETICS OF ANTIBODY DIVERSITY] TWO OFFPRINTS: 1) VARIABLE AND CONSTANT PARTS OF THE IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN GENE OF A MOUSE MYELOMA CELL ARE 1250 NONTRANSLATED BASES APART (Christine Brack and Susumu Tonegawa) 2) A COMPLETE