Salvador Luria - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1969
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Salvador Luria

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1969
for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
Together with: Alfred Hershey , Max Delbrück
Citizenship
Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Italy Italy Italy United States United States
Languages
Italian, English
date of birth
8/13/1912
place of birth
Turin
date of death
2/6/1991
place of death
Lexington
Lived
78 years

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member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1964
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1960
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
employer
  • Columbia University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
educated at
  • University of Turin
  • Columbia University
  • Sapienza University of Rome
field of work
  • microbiology
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • microbiologist
  • virologist
  • Specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology
doctoral student
  • Abraham Sonenshein
  • Robert Chin-Yao Ting
  • James Watson
work location
  • Cambridge
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