The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
Awarded on: 1969-10-16
"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
Affiliations:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Cambridge, MA, USA
Salvador E. Luria
Born: 1912-08-13 in Turin, Italy
Gender: male
Field: Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
Biography
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.