BIOLOGIST

Salvador Luria

1912 - 1991

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Salvador Edward Luria (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salvador Luria is the 161st most popular biologist (down from 157th in 2019), the 1,147th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,304th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Salvador Luria ranks 161 out of 1,097. Before him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Martin Chalfie, Jakob von Uexküll, Susumu Tonegawa, Nettie Stevens, and Georg Wilhelm Steller. After him are George Davis Snell, Renato Dulbecco, Mario Capecchi, Henry Walter Bates, Louis Agassiz, and Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Salvador Luria ranks 62. Before him are Don Siegel, Cornel Wilde, Kathleen Ferrier, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, and Lawrence Durrell. After him are Otto Kretschmer, Kim Sung-gan, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Abbé Pierre, Rodolfo Gucci, and John Cheever. Among people deceased in 1991, Salvador Luria ranks 42. Before him are Stan Getz, Jean Tinguely, Don Siegel, Gunnar Gren, Martha Graham, and Claudio Arrau. After him are Leo Fender, Alfonso García Robles, Richard Stone, George Stigler, Tony Richardson, and Ivan Kozhedub.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvador Luria ranks 1,147 out of 5,161. Before him are Bohemond II of Antioch (1108), Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Eleonora Gonzaga (1630), Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812), and Mina (1940). After him are Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Renato Dulbecco (1914), Mario Capecchi (1937), Ettore Scola (1931), and Eleonora Gonzaga (1598).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Salvador Luria ranks 4. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), and Gabriele Falloppio (1523). After him are Renato Dulbecco (1914), Mario Capecchi (1937), Giovanni Sartori (1924), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Odoardo Beccari (1843), Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), and Giuseppe Acerbi (1773).

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