Salvador Luria

Salvador Luria
Luria c. 1969
Born
Salvatore Luria

August 13, 1912 (1912-08-13)
DiedFebruary 6, 1991(1991-02-06) (aged 78)
NationalityItalian
American (since 1950)
Alma materUniversity of Turin
Spouse
(m. 1945)
Children1
AwardsJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1942)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsColumbia University
Indiana University
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral studentsJames D. Watson
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Salvador Edward Luria (born Salvatore 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.