Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
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Salvador Luria was an Italian American microbiologist who made important contributions to understanding how bacteria and viruses behave and evolve. His work, conducted during the mid-20th century, helped advance the field of molecular biology and earned him recognition as a significant figure in modern science.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1912
- Died
- 1991
- Works
- 16
Top works
- The Multiplication of Viruses / Virus Inclusions in Plant Cells / Virus Inclusions in Insect Cells / Antibiotika Erzeugende Virus-ähnliche Faktoren in ... )
- General virology
- The T2 mystery
- Life (Condor Books)
- Life
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses
· 2009 · cited 11,860x
- Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans
· 2016 · cited 8,976x
Article
Salvador Edward Luria (/ˈlʊəriə/; Italian: [ˈluːrja]; 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.
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