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Salvador Luria | |
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 Luria c. 1969 | |
| Born | Salvatore Luria August 13, 1912 |
| Died | February 6, 1991 (aged 78) Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | Italian American (since 1950) |
| Alma mater | University of Turin |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1942) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1969) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular biology |
| Institutions | Columbia University Indiana University University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students | James 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.