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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969

"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
Max Delbrück Alfred D. Hershey Salvador E. Luria
Max Delbrück Alfred D. Hershey Salvador E. Luria
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Long Island, New York, NY, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA, USA
b. 1906
(in Berlin, Germany)
d. 1981
b. 1908
d. 1997
b. 1912
(in Torino, Italy)
d. 1991
 
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