What's New:
Salvador E. Luria Collection Added to Profiles in Science
JANUARY, 2006 |
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In collaboration with the American Philosophical Society,
Profiles in Science
has added the papers of Salvador E. Luria (1923-1992) to its archive.
The Italian-born Luria did pioneering work with Max Delbruck on bacterial viruses (bacteriophage), demonstrating that bacterial
resistance to phage infection occurred through genetic mutation, and that bacteria were suitable subjects for genetics
research. He worked with many early molecular biologists on problems of gene structure and function. Luria's work included
discovering the phenomenon of bacterial restriction and modification of phage DNA by means of enzymes, and elucidating the
mechanisms by which certain proteins operate within bacterial cell membranes. In 1969, Luria shared the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine with Max Delbruck and Alfred Hershey, for their "discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and
the genetic structure of viruses." Later, Luria founded M.I.T.'s Center for Cancer
Research and was its director from 1972 to 1985.
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