Salvador Luria

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Italian American microbiologist (1912-1991)

United States AcademicsLived 1912 to 1991 · aged 78

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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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Salvador Luria with Esther Lederberg at the 1953 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium. In the background are Aaron Novick, Bruce Stocker, Haig Papazian and Geraldine Lindegren.

Awards 5

1991National Medal of Science

1974National Book Award

1969Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1969Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

1942Guggenheim Fellowship

Connected to Salvador 6

Randy SchekmanAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Aaron KlugAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Bert SakmannAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Kurt WüthrichAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Susumu TonegawaAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

Alfred G. GilmanAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

About this person

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.

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