|
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.
|
