Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. Wikipedia
Born: February 22, 1914, Catanzaro, Italy
Died: February 19, 2012 (age 97 years), La Jolla, CA
Spouse: Maureen Muir (m. 1962–2012)
Education: University of Turin (1936)
Books: Virology, Narrative and Freedom, The Human Genome, and more
Doctoral students: Howard Temin
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