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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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- Born
- 1906-09-04
- Died
- 1981-03-09
- Works
- 5
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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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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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1906 births1981 deathsAcademic staff of ETH ZurichAmerican biophysicistsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican molecular biologistsAmerican Nobel laureatesCalifornia Institute of Technology facultyEmigrants from Nazi Germany to the United StatesFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesForeign members of the Royal Society