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Max Delbrück

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Max Delbrück

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Also known as Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück

biophysicist (1906–1981)

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Max Delbrück was a biophysicist who lived from 1906 to 1981 and played a key role in applying physics to the study of biology, particularly in understanding how living organisms work at a fundamental level. His work helped establish the field of molecular biology and influenced how scientists think about life processes using physical principles.

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  • Problems of modern biology in relation to atomic physics
  • Desoxyribonucleinsäure, Schlüssel des Lebens
  • Der Aufbau der Atomkerne
  • Viruses 1950. Proceedings of a Conference on the Similarities and Dissimilarities Between Viruses Attacking Animals, Plants, and Bacteria, Respectively. Held at the California Institute of Technology, Mar. 20-22 1950
  • Statistische Quantenmechanik und Thermodynamik

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5 total works indexed

  1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

    · 2012 · cited 24,609x

  2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

    · 1995 · cited 21,525x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,908x

  4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

    · 2019 · cited 20,499x

  5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

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Quotes

  • “If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”
  • “The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said … that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.”
  • “The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1969

    “for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”

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Encyclopedic overview

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück ( German: [maks ˈdɛl.bʁʏk] ; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering.

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