Max Delbrück M.D.
Max Delbrück M.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
Co-Nobelists Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria
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Name: Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück
Birth: 4 September 1906, Berlin, Germany
Death: 9 March 1981, Pasadena, CA, USA
Institution: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Award: “for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”
Subject: genetics, virology
Portion of Cash: 1/3
Award: “for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”
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- Karl Friedrich (his father Karl Bonhoeffer was Professor of Psychiatry), eight years older than Max Delbrück, was a physical chemist of high distinction, and became the mentor and lifelong friend of Delbrück.
- Among his friendships during the later student years, the most intense and influential one was with Werner Brock, later emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Freiburg
- Three postdoctoral years (1929-1932) abroad, in England, Switzerland, and Denmark. The stay in England, with its immersion into a new language and a new culture, had a vast effect on widening his outlook on life. In Switzerland and Denmark the associations with Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr shaped his attitude toward the pursuit of truth in science.