'The strikingly simple, almost primitive looking experimental methods he employed in his thesis against the backdrop of ongoing World War II left a deep impression on me, especially with the historical hindsight of knowing that both Jacob-Monod model of gene regulation and the later study of allostery build up on this thesis work- of E.coli in variety of sugar waters.'

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