Salvador Luria
Italian microbiologist
Died when: 78 years 177 days (941 months)Star Sign: Leo
Salvador Edward 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 also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.
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