Max Delbruck Facts
Max Delbruck Facts
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| Max Delbruck was born in Berlin where his father was a history professor at the University of Berlin. |
| In 1937 he immigrated to the United States and became a US citizen in 1945. |
| Max's brother, Justus and his two brothers-in-law Klaus and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were active in the resistance and in 1945 were executed by the Nazis. |
| In 1930 he earned a PhD in physics at the University of Gottingen and in 1932 became an assistant to Lisa Meitner in her research on irradiation of uranium with neutrons. |
| In 1933 he wrote a paper on gamma rays' scattering by a Coulomb field's polarization in a vacuum which became known as Delbruck scattering. |
| In 1937 he received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to research the genetics of the fruit fly in the new molecular biology research program at the California Institute of Technology. |
| He researched bacteria and bacteriophages. |
| In 1939 he co-authored "The growth of the bacteriophage" which reported that viruses reproduce in one step rather than exponentially. |
| From 1940 to 1947 he taught physics at Vanderbilt University. |
| In 1942 he and Salvador Luria of Indiana University published a paper on bacterial resistance to virus infection mediated by random mutation. |
| In 1945 he, Luria, and Alfred Hershey of Washington University established a course in bacteriophage genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. |
| They were instrumental in the development of the field of molecular biology. |
| They shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work with viruses. |
| From 1947 until his retirement, he was a professor of biology at Caltech. |
| His studies on genes' susceptibility to mutation influenced Francis Crick and James Watson in their cellular structure of DNA. |
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