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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 was awarded jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 was awarded...
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Salvador E. Luria. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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Feb 6, 1991 · Salvador E. Luria. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969. Born: 13 August 1912, Turin, Italy. Died: 6 February 1991, Lexington, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
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 is genetically inherited.
Aug 9, 2024 · Salvador Luria 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 Turin in 1935 and became a radiology.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 was awarded jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses".
Salvador E. Luria was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey (AAI '42) for "their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."
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In 1969, he shared a Nobel Prize with his colleagues for their insights into the replication mechanism and genetic structure of these viruses. He also was the founding director of the Center for Cancer Research at MIT, where researchers discovered mRNA splicing and isolated oncogenes.
