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Salvador Luria

Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)

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Born
August 13, 1912
Died
February 6, 1991
Zodiac sign
Leo
Birth year
1912

About Salvador Luria

Salvador Edward Luria 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. Luria arrived in New York City on September 12, 1940, and soon changed his first and middle names. It was later discovered by other researchers that bacteria produce enzymes that cut viral DNA at particular sequences but not the bacteria's own DNA, which is protected by methylation.

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Salvador Luria timeline

  1. Luria arrived in New York City on September 12, 1940, and soon changed his first and middle names.
  2. 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.

The world when Salvador Luria was born

Salvador Luria was born in 1912. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1912

  • Best-selling book"The Harvester" – Gene Stratton-Porter

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJim Thorpe wins two gold medals at the Stockholm Olympics
  • Top headlineRMS Titanic sinks on maiden voyage — 1,500+ die
  • Technology milestoneFirst parachute jump from an airplane
  • World population~1.72B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population94.6M

1912 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Salvador Luria's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19122026
Population94.6M341 million

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