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Salvador Luria

Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)

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Lived 1912–1991, aged 79United States

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Aged 79
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Updated 2026-06-19

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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