Renato Dulbecco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Renato Dulbecco

Italian-born American virologist

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1914

Place of Birth: Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy

Date of Death: 19-Feb-2012

Profession: physician, virologist

Nationality: United States, Italy

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Renato Dulbecco ( dul-BEK-oh, Italian: [re'na?to dul'b?kko, -'bek-]; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) 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.
He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S.
with him and won Nobel prizes.
He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.