Salvador Luria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Salvador Luria

Italian American microbiologist

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1912

Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1991

Profession: chemist, university teacher, microbiologist, virologist

Nationality: United States, Italy

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Salvador Edward Luria (August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) 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 genetic structure of viruses.
Salvador Luria also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.