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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

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