Max Delbrück, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Delbrück

biophysicist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1906

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1981

Profession: physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher, geneticist, biophysicist, virologist, molecular biologist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (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 genetics.
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.