Word: luria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salvador Luria, 57, washing the breakfast dishes in Lexington, Mass., was incredulous when a neighbor interrupted to report what he had just heard over the radio. Dr. Alfred Hershey, 60, also was skeptical when word reached him at Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Dr. Max Delbrück, 63, was disgruntled; it was only 5 a.m. in Pasadena when a reporter called him. Telegrams from Stockholm soon confirmed the news. The three biologists (only Luria is an M.D.) had been jointly awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for their work between 1940 and 1952 in microbiology and genetics...
Coat of Protein. Delbruck, who was born in Germany, and Luria, from Italy, met at Vanderbilt University in 1940 and began to cooperate in their studies of bacteriophages. Luria soon discovered that mutations (a variation in characteristics from one generation to the next) occurred in the viruses, and that these changes were passed on to succeeding generations. Delbrück found that the genetic materials of different kinds of viruses infecting the same cell sometimes combined, producing a new and different kind of virus...
Among the distinguished research leaders are seven members of the National Academy of Sciences, including Salvatore E. Luria, professor of microbiology at M.I.T., and one of the three Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine last week. Luria had previously refused to serve on HEW review boards until the "tests of political conformity" were abolished...
Robert H. Finch, Secretary of HEW, congratulated Luria by telegram following last week's Nobel presentation. "You have amply earned the gratitude of all Americans," he said...
...STOCKHOLM-An M.I.T. scientist, Salvador E. Luria. was one of three men to receive the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine this year...