Regulatory systems analyst that discovers and models control mechanisms in complex biological and organizational systems.
Born in Paris, he graduated from the university there (1931), a then left to work at Columbia University. He returned to Fran and received his PhD from the Sorbonne for his thesis on ba terial growth. After World War Il he began work at the Paste Institute in Paris, becoming head of the cellular biochemist department in 1954 and director in 1971. From 1967, he was al professor of molecular biology at the Collége de F…