What nationality was Salvador Luria originally?
Italian
French
German
Spanish
Answer
Italian-born Salvador Luria was a renowned microbiologist and geneticist. He made significant contributions to the understanding of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) and their role in genetic recombination. Luria shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred Hershey and Max Delbrück for their discoveries concerning the genetic structure of viruses.
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