Word: luria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times reported Monday that 45 scientists-including five from Harvard, nine from Yale, and M.I.T. Nobel Laureate Salvatore E. Luria-have been placed recently on a blacklist for the National Institute of Health (NIH). In addition, 48 scientists have been blacklisted by HEW for several years, the article said...
...Luria, who only last week received congratulations from Finch for receiving the Nobel Prize in medicine, said that Finch's decision "is very good news. If my being involved helped to abolish the blacklists, I am pleased...
Michigan-born Hershey, who began exchanging information with Delbruck and Luria in 1942, found more conclusive evidence for the genetic recombination that Delbrück had discovered. In 1952, Hershey proved that the virus, which consists simply of nucleic acid (DNA) surrounded by a coat of protein, leaves its coat behind as it invades a cell. So it must be the DNA that contains the genetic information...
...molecule. The finding in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick that the typical DNA molecule consists of a double helix enabled scientists to reduce to relatively simple chemical terms the process by which inherited traits are passed on. But it was the contributions of Delbruck, Luria and Hershey that, in the words of the Nobel committee "set the solid foundation on which modern molecular biology rests...
...three winners are still actively engaged in research, Delbruck at the California Institute of Technology, Luria at M.I.T. and Hershey at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's genetic-research unit at Cold Spring Harbor. Only a fortnight ago, when the three met and compared notes, none had any idea of the honor that the next week would bring...