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Salvador Edward Luria (born Salvatore Luria; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) 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 (born Aug. 13, 1912, Turin, Italy—died Feb. 6, 1991, Lexington, Mass., U.S.) was an Italian-born American biologist who, along with Max Delbrück and Alfred Day Hershey, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for research on bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria. Luria graduated from the University of ...
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The first full-length biography of Salvador Luria profiles his life as a scientist and activist. Salvador Luria (1912–1991) led a storied career at MIT as a professor in the Department of Biology and the founding director of the MIT Center for Cancer Research, now the Koch Institute.
Nov 18, 2022 · Salvador Luria was a highly influential, Nobel Prize-winning scientist who made an important mark on cancer research at MIT. A recent event at the Koch Institute celebrated his impact and launched a new biography of his life and achievements from author Rena Selya and the MIT Press.
Biographical. Salvador Edward Luria was born on August 13th, 1912, in Torino, Italy. He has been a naturalized citizen of the U.S.A. since January 1947. In 1929 he started his studies in Medicine at the University of Torino, where he obtained his M. D. summa cum laude in 1935.
Pioneering microbial geneticist Salvador Edward Luria was born Salvatore Luria in Turin, Italy, on August 13, 1912, the second son of David Luria, an accountant, and his wife Esther. His school years coincided with the rise of fascism in Italy, and he was strongly influenced by several of his teachers who resisted the movement.
Luria devoted much of his career to studying bacteriophages — viruses that invade and kill bacteria. In 1969, he shared a Nobel Prize with his colleagues for their insights into the replication mechanism and genetic structure of these viruses.
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