Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco
Born(1914-02-22)February 22, 1914
Catanzaro, Italy
DiedFebruary 19, 2012(2012-02-19) (aged 97)
La Jolla, California
NationalityItalian, American[3]
Alma materUniversity of Turin
Known forReverse transcriptase
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsVirologist
Institutions
Doctoral studentsHoward Temin[2]

Renato Dulbecco (/dʌlˈbɛkoʊ/ dul-BEK-oh,[4][5] Italian: [reˈnaːto dulˈbɛkko, -ˈbek-]; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012)[6] 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.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] 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.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference formemrs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Dulbecco, R. (1995). "Howard M. Temin. 10 December 1934-9 February 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41 (4): 471–80. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0028. PMID 11615362.
  3. ^ Dulbecco is a naturalized American citizen. See Dulbécco, Renato in www.treccani.it
  4. ^ "Dulbecco". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Dulbecco". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  6. ^ Gellene, Denise (February 20, 2012). "Renato Dulbecco, 97, Dies; Won Prize for Cancer Study". New York Times. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  7. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975". Nobelprize.org. 12 Sep 2012
  8. ^ Verma, I. M. (2012). "Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012) Molecular biologist who proved that virus-derived genes can trigger cancer". Nature. 483 (7390): 408. doi:10.1038/483408a. PMID 22437605.
  9. ^ Eckhart, W. (2012). "Renato Dulbecco: Viruses, genes, and cancer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (13): 4713–4714. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.4713E. doi:10.1073/pnas.1203513109. PMC 3323998.
  10. ^ Raju, T. N. (1999). "The Nobel chronicles. 1975: Renato Dulbecco (b 1914), David Baltimore (b 1938), and Howard Martin Temin (1934-94)". Lancet. 354 (9186): 1308. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)76086-4. PMID 10520671. S2CID 54316919.
  11. ^ Kevles, D. J. (1993). "Renato Dulbecco and the new animal virology: Medicine, methods, and molecules" (PDF). Journal of the History of Biology. 26 (3): 409–442. doi:10.1007/bf01062056. PMID 11613167. S2CID 36014355.
  12. ^ Baltimore, D. (2012). "Retrospective: Renato Dulbecco (1914-2012)". Science. 335 (6076): 1587. doi:10.1126/science.1221692. PMID 22461601. S2CID 206541174.
  13. ^ Nobel autobiography of Dulbecco
  14. ^ Renato Dulbecco telling his story at Web of Stories