Salvador Luria
Salvador Luria · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the replication and genetics of viruses (bacteriophages).
1912, Turin, Italy — 1991, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Italy · France · United States
Salvador Luria is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the replication and genetics of viruses (bacteriophages).
Born to an Italian-Jewish family in Turin, Luria left Italy after Mussolini's 1938 racial laws barred Jews from academic posts, fleeing through France to the United States. With Max Delbrück he used the Luria–Delbrück experiment to prove that bacterial mutations arise spontaneously, founding modern bacterial genetics and the study of bacteriophages. This work brought the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; he also mentored a generation of molecular biologists at MIT.
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Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the replication and genetics of viruses (bacteriophages).
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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