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  Salvador Luria
Salvador Edward Luria was born on August 13, 1912, in Torino, Italy.
In 1950, Luria was appointed by the University of Illinois as Professor of Microbiology.
A decade later, Luria moved to MIT, where he remained until retirement; from 1959-1964 he was the Professor of Microbiology; in 1964, he became the Sedgwick Professor of Biology; in 1970, he was appointed Institute Professor at the Department of Biology.
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Salvador Edward Luria (August 13, 1912 - February 6, 1991) was a naturalized American microbiologist whose pioneering work on phage helped open up molecular biology.
Luria was born in Torino, Italy, but fled to France in 1936 and then to the United States in 1940 as his leftist, pacifist views were incongruent with the fascist regime of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Along with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, Luria was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.
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 Salvador E. Luria - Biography
Salvador Edward Luria was born on August 13th, 1912, in Torino, Italy.
In 1970 Luria was appointed Institute Professor at the Department of Biology of the M.I.T. Professor Luria was honoured with the following awards: 1935, Lepetit Prize; 1965, Lenghi Prize, Accademia dei Lincei; 1969, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University.
Salvador E. Luria died on February 6, 1991.
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 Luria, Salvador,
Luria graduated from the University of Turin in 1935 and became a radiology specialist.
Working with a member of the group in 1942, Luria obtained one of the electron micrographs of phage particles, which confirmed earlier descriptions of them as consisting of a round head and a thin tail.
Luria became Sedgwick professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964.
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 Luria, Salvador Edward --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The city of Salvador is the capital of Bahia state in northeastern Brazil and one of the country's finest deepwater ports.
The climate is warm and humid with a year-round average temperature of 77° F (25° C).
The capital and largest city of the Republic of El Salvador, San Salvador is one of the major cities of Central America.
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 The Salvador E. Luria Papers: Biographical Information
Pioneering microbial geneticist Salvador Edward Luria was born Salvatore Luria in Turin, Italy, on August 13, 1912, the second son of David Luria, an accountant, and his wife Esther.
Luria married Zella Hurwitz, a psychologist, in 1945.
Luria retired as director in 1985, and was given the title of Institute Professor Emeritus.
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 Salvador Luria Papers, American Philosophical Society
Salvador E. Luria was born on 13 August 1912 in Turin, Italy.
Luria became Professor of Microbiology and Chairman of the Microbiology Committee at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1959.
The Salvador E. Luria Papers (1923-1992) contain correspondence, subject files, manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Luria, papers by colleagues and students, research notes by Luria and by students, course material, and photographs, which document Luria's career as a molecular biologist.
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 Salvador Edward Luria Biography / Biography of Salvador Edward Luria World of Health Biography
Salvador Luria was born on August 13, 1912, in Turin, Italy.
Luria emigrated to the United States in 1940 and accepted an appointment to Columbia University.
Together, Luria and Delbrück planned a series of experiments to study bacteria that had developed resistance to bacteriophages.
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Luria, Salvador Edward (1912-1991), Italian-born American physician-biologist and Nobel laureate.
Luria shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or...
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 Alibris: Salvador
Salvador Dali is perhaps the most universally famous and popular artist of the twentieth century.
Diary Of A Genius stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador Dali, the eccentric polymath genius who became the living embodiment of the 20th century's most intensely subversive, disturbing and influential art movement.
Now, in the culmination of his lifework, world-renowned family therapist Salvador Minuchin reveals how his own personal experiences shaped his understanding of the family and his ability to cut through the knots of family...
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George Oliver and Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer (Schaefer) first demonstrated the action of a specific hormone: the effect of an extract of the adrenal gland on blood vessels and muscle contraction.Upon injection into normal animals it produced a striking elevation in blood pressure.
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer (Schaefer) coined the term "insuline" for the active principle of the pancreas.
Edward Calvin Kendall completed the final isolation of crystalline thyroxine, the active substance produced by the thyroid gland.
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And thus, in 1943, Hershey, Delbrück and Luria organised the "Phage Group", a team of bacteriophage researchers who met every year at Cold Spring Harbor to discuss their work and advances.
Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in 1969 with Salvador Edward Luria (1912-1991) and Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (1906-1981), "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
Salvador Edward Luria then worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, while Max Delbrück was affiliated with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
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 Isaac ben Solomon Luria --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
The Lurianic Kabbala, a collection of Luria's doctrines recorded after his death by a pupil, had great influence on later Jewish mysticism and on Hasidism.
By the mid-16th century the unchallenged centre of Kabbala was Safed, Galilee, where one of the greatest of all Kabbalists, Isaac ben Solomon Luria, spent the last years of his life.
According to Gershom Gerhard Scholem, a modern Jewish scholar of Kabbala, Luria's influence was surpassed only by that of the Sefer ha-zohar.
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 Luria at Business.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Luria (L.) & Son Inc is a specialty discount retailer offering a wide range of diamond and gold jewelry, watches, giftware, housewares, home furnishings and consumer electronics.
Luria was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.
Salvador E. Luria, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, at the
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 Salvador Edward Luria Biography / Biography of Salvador Edward Luria History of Scientific Discovery Biography
Salvador Edward Luria Biography / Biography of Salvador Edward Luria History of Scientific Discovery Biography
He met Max Delbruck shortly thereafter, and the latter invited Luria to carry on research at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where Delbruck was teaching.
Together, Luria and Delbruck planned a series of experiments to study bacteria that had developed resistance to bacteriophages.
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 Profiles in Science: The Salvador E. Luria Papers
Salvador Edward Luria (1912-1991) was an Italian-born bacteriologist whose pioneering work on bacterial viruses (bacteriophage) with Max Delbrück demonstrated that bacterial resistance to phage infection occurred through genetic mutation, and that bacteria were suitable subjects for genetics research.
Later, Luria was the first director of the MIT Center for Cancer Research.
Luria shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their "discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."
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