Nobel Prize® medal - registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation

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
 
Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award.
Photos: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation

The 1969 Prize in:

Get Adobe Flash player
Nobelpriskampen
Explore the Medicine games! Explore the Medicine games!
News from Nobelprize.org Sign up for News from Nobelprize.org