What was Salvador Luria's birth name?
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Salvatore Luria, known as Salvador Luria, was an Italian-American microbiologist and geneticist. He was born in Turin, Italy, in 1912. Luria's research on bacterial viruses and the role of mutation in evolution earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969. He is credited with developing the fluctuation test, which is used to study the rate of mutations in bacteria.
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