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French-Jewish wife & twin sons of Jacques Monod. Her papers had to be altered with an Anglicized version of her last name for safe passage when moving outside of Paris during the worst days of WW2 in France
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Jacques Monod & Nobel Prize colleagues after the award. Monod is on the right.
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Prof Jacques Monod supporting students during the French university riots in 1968. Still politically engaged.Prof Jacques Monod supporting students during the French university riots in 1968. Still politically engaged.
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French resistance patriot durring the war, and her speaking with Sean Carroll at age 93. She still lives in the same Paris apartment.
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Wife and twin sons of Jacques Monod during WWII, one of the twins with Sean Carroll while he was writing the book.
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Two of Sean Carroll's favorite professors while an undergad at Washington U in St. Louis. He said that the French prof was so good he took 5 classes from him, making it possible for him to understand French well enough to write this book. Cool.