Stuk GS/8/9/2/5 - Photograph of Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück, Cold Spring Harbor.

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Black and white photograph of Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück. Taken in summer 1946 at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, USA.

Admin History: Salvador Edward Luria: (August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991), 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. 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. In 1945, Delbrück, Luria, and Hershey set up a course in bacteriophage genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This Phage Group spurred molecular biology's early development. Delbrück received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Luria and Hershey "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses".[