Alphabetical Index Index by Year of Birth Nobel Prize Laureates
Max Delbrück
1969 Physiology or Medicine
* 1906 Charlottenburg, Berlin
+ 1981 Pasadena, California
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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, a German–American biophysicist,
helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s.
Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey,
the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics.
The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses".
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