Awards & Winners

Salvador Luria

Date of Birth 13-August-1912
Place of Birth Turin
(Province of Turin, Piedmont, Italy)
Nationality Italy, United States of America
Also know as S. E. Luria, Salvatore Edoardo Luria
Profession Scientist
Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist naturalized American. 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 showed that bacterial resistance to viruses is genetically inherited.

Awards by Salvador Luria

Check all the awards nominated and won by Salvador Luria.

1991


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For a lifetime devoted to applying genetics to viruses and bacteria, and for guiding the development of generations of students who have helped create the modern power of molecular biology.)

1974


National Book Award for The Sciences
Honored for : Life: The Unfinished Experiment

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for The Sciences Life: The Unfinished Experiment

1969


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize