Salvador Luria
Italian microbiologist
Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. 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... Wikipedia
Born: August 13, 1912, Turin, Italy
Died: February 6, 1991 (age 78 years), Lexington, MA
Education: University of Turin (1929–1935) and Columbia University
Nationality: American and Italian
Notable students: James D. Watson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Boris Rotman