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Max Delbrück

1906 - 1981

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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (German: [maks ˈdɛl.bʁʏk] ; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Delbrück is the 199th most popular physicist (up from 261st in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Germany (up from 909th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Physicist.

Max Delbrück is most famous for his work on the structure of DNA.

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Among physicists, Max Delbrück ranks 199 out of 851. Before him are Val Logsdon Fitch, George Francis FitzGerald, Igor Tamm, Hugh David Politzer, Horst Ludwig Störmer, and Bertram Brockhouse. After him are David Brewster, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Kip Thorne, Hugh Everett III, Klaus von Klitzing, and Karl Schwarzschild.

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Among people born in 1906, Max Delbrück ranks 45. Before him are Clyde Tombaugh, Marcelo Caetano, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Soichiro Honda, Alexey Stakhanov, and Wassily Leontief. After him are Dino Buzzati, Klaus Mann, Albert Sabin, Ettore Majorana, Empress Wanrong, and John Huston. Among people deceased in 1981, Max Delbrück ranks 19. Before him are Hideki Yukawa, William Wyler, Harold Urey, Béla Guttmann, William Holden, and Marcel Breuer. After him are Karl Böhm, Natalie Wood, A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, René Clair, and Joseph Murphy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Delbrück ranks 574 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), August Schleicher (1821), Adam Opel (1837), and Willi Stoph (1914). After him are Patrick Süskind (1949), Hans Eysenck (1916), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Fritz Walter (1920), and Constanze Mozart (1762).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Max Delbrück ranks 33. Before him are Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Hans Geiger (1882), and Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949). After him are Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Klaus Fuchs (1911), Jack Steinberger (1921), and Carl von Linde (1842).

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