Salvador E. Luria

Salvador E. Luria

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”

Salvador E. Luria was an Italian-born American microbiologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.

Field
Biology · Virology
Lifespan
1912–1991