Salvador Luria

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Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine geneticist human microbiologist

Salvador Luria was an Italian-American microbiologist and Nobel laureate whose pioneering work in bacteriophage genetics helped establish the foundations of molecular biology.

Aliases (2)

Salvatore Edoardo Luria ×1
Salvatore Luria ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine → geneticist → human → microbiologist →
awardReceived	Lasker Award → Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine →
birthName	Salvatore Edoardo Luria →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
causeOfMigration	escape from Fascist antisemitic laws in Italy →
countryOfCitizenship	Italy → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1912-08-13 →
dateOfDeath	1991-02-06 →
degree	M.D. →
doctoralAdvisor	Giuseppe Levi →
doctoralStudent	James D. Watson →
educatedAt	University of Turin →
employer	Indiana University Bloomington → Massachusetts Institute of Technology → University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign →
ethnicGroup	Italian Jew →
familyName	Luria →
fieldOfWork	bacterial genetics → bacteriophage genetics → microbiology → molecular biology →
givenName	Salvatore →
knownFor	demonstrating random mutation as the source of bacterial resistance to phages → foundational contributions to molecular biology → pioneering work on bacteriophages →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → Italian →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Sciences →
migratedTo	United States of America →
name	Salvador Luria →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physiology or Medicine →
NobelPrizeFor	discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses →
NobelPrizeYear	1969 →
notableWork	Luria–Delbrück experiment →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of Italy → Turin →
placeOfDeath	Lexington, Massachusetts →
positionHeld	director of MIT Center for Cancer Research → professor of microbiology →
religion	Judaism →
sharedNobelPrizeWith	Alfred Hershey → Max Delbrück →
workInstitution	MIT Center for Cancer Research → MIT Department of Biology →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Salvador Luria ("Salvatore Edoardo Luria") →	birthName
James Watson →	doctoralAdvisor
University of Turin ("Salvatore Luria") →	hasNotableAlumni
Salvador Luria →	name
Max Delbrück →	notableStudent