Salvador Luria
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1912 – 1991
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Who was Salvador Luria?
Salvador Edward Luria was an American microbiologist of Italian descent. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Salvador Luria showed that bacterial resistance to viruses is genetically inherited.
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- Born
- Aug 13, 1912
Turin - Also known as
- S. E. Luria
- Salvatore Edoardo Luria
- Salvador E. Luria
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Italy
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Doctor of Medicine, University of Turin
Medicine
(1929 - 1935)
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Lived in
- Lexington
( - 1991/02/06)
- Lexington
- Died
- Feb 6, 1991
Lexington
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on July 23, 2013
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