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Renato Dulbecco

Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012) · Italy · Doctors · Died at 97

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Renato Dulbecco was an Italian-American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells.

A life in dates

2012Died19 February 20121996Honorary Doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran CanariaAward1991Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward1981Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward1978Honorary Doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselAward1975Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1974Leeuwenhoek LectureAwardSelman A. Waksman Award in MicrobiologyAward1973Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeAwardMarjory Stephenson PrizeAward1967Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter PrizeAward1965Howard Taylor Ricketts PrizeAward1964Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward1961AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer ResearchAward1958John Scott AwardAward1914Born22 February 1914

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Awards

Honorary Doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria1996
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1991
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1981
Honorary Doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel1978
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1975
Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology1974
Leeuwenhoek Lecture1974
Foreign Member of the Royal Society1974
Marjory Stephenson Prize1973
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize1973
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize1967
Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize1965
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1964
AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research1961
John Scott Award1958
Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

Renato Dulbecco was an Italian-American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.

Country
Italy
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1914 to 2012 · aged 97

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