Max Delbrück Scientist

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, FRS (September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981), a German–American biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of cell physiology. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses".He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering.

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Alias (AKA)	Delbrück Max Ludwig Henning (full name); Delbrueck Max (umlaut substitution modern german variant); Delbruck Max (American variant diacritical removal)
Birth date	September 04, 1906
Birth name	Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück
Birth place	Berlin , German Empire
Citizenship	Citizenship in the United States
Date of death	March 09, 1981
Place of death	Pasadena California , United States