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Appendix B: Executive Committee Members' Biographies
Pages 159-160

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... François Jacob is president of the Comité de Défense des Hommes de Sciences of the Académie des Sciences. In 1965 François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis." Belita Koiller, Brazil Belita Koiller is professor of theoretical physics at the Instituto de Fisica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
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... Edoardo Vesentini, Italy Edoardo Vesentini, a mathematician, is president emeritus of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome. He is presently a full professor of mathematical analysis at the Politecnico di Torino and a member of the Accademia delle Scienze of Turin.


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