Birth Date Cake O'Clock Birth Date Clock

Salvador Luria

Salvador Luria
Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. 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 also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.

13 August 1912

Random

Born on the same birth date (13 August 1912): Ben Hogan • Claire Cribbs

Born on the same birth day (13 August): Anders Jonas Ångström • Charles Wells (brewer) • Debi Mazar • Fred Hill (American football) • Fred Stanley (baseball) • Gerrit van Look • James Gillray • Jane Carr • Jarrod Washburn • Joe Perry (snooker player) • Katrina Gorry • Louis Frémaux • Michael Willetts • Robin Jackman • Salomon Jadassohn

Born in the same month (August 1912): Abbé Pierre • David Brand • David Raksin • Edward Mills Purcell • Erich Honecker • Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs • Frank Oppenheimer • Fritz Hellwig • Gloria Guinness • Samuel Fuller • Sohn Kee-chung • Toe Blake