Max Delbrück - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1969
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Max Delbrück

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1969
for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
Together with: Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria
Citizenship
GermanyGermanyUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
German, English
date of birth
9/4/1906
place of birth
Berlin
date of death
3/9/1981
place of death
Pasadena
Lived
74 years

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occupation
  • biophysicist
  • virologist
  • molecular biologist
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • geneticist
  • astrophysicist
  • biologist
field of work
  • biophysics
educated at
  • University of Göttingen
employer
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Vanderbilt University
    • start time: 1940
    • end time: 1947
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
doctoral student
  • Lily Jan
  • Roderick K. Clayton
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