1960
		1960
	F. Jacob and J. Monod publish "Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins," a paper in which the theory of the OPERON is developed.	1961	John F. Kennedy becomes thirty-fifth president of the United States.
	Watson, Crick, and Wilkins share a Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work in elucidating the structure of DNA.	1962
		1963	Kennedy assassinated. Lyndon Johnson becomes thirty-sixth president of the United States.
		1964
	François Jacob, André Lwoff, and Jacques Monod share a Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.	1965
		1966
		1967
	Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, and Marshall W. Nirenberg share a Nobel Prize in Medicine for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.	1968
	Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, and Salvador E. Luria share a Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.	1969	Richard M. Nixon becomes thirty-seventh president of the United States.
		1970