Salvador Luria Scientist

Salvador Edward Luria (August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized American citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Salvador Luria showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.

Personal facts

Birth date	August 13, 1912
Birth name	Salvatore Edoardo Luria
Birth place	Italy , Turin
Nationality	Italy
Date of death	February 06, 1991
Place of death	Lexington Massachusetts
Education	University of Turin