Stockholm's Caroline Institute last week awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine to three French investigators for brilliantly imaginative research into the mechanisms by which genes regulate vital biochemical processes. Though the work has no present practical application, it has inspired hundreds of other researchers, and hopefully, within a generation or so, it may lead to means of controlling genetic processes in humans. The three Pasteur Institute scientists who will share the $56,400 prize:
> André Lwoff, 63, French-born but of Russian-Polish extraction, has spent all his life at the Pasteur, since 1959 has also been...
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