Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian-American scientist who studied viruses and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for his discoveries about how viruses interact with animal cells. His work laid important groundwork for understanding cancer and how viruses cause disease, making him one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century.
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Renato Dulbecco (/dʌlˈbɛkoʊ/ dul-BEK-oh, Italian: [reˈnaːto dulˈbɛkko, -ˈbek-]; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) 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. 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.
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