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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physiology or Medicine (216) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1960s (79) 1969 (10) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1906 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, central (101) Germany (84) Berlin (10) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1981 (7) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Western states (63) California (53) Pasadena (7) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name L-R (240) M (50) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) D (26) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name L-R (156) M (30) Max (6) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 64 (34) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Life Scientists (181) Biological Scientists (181) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, central (117) Germany (98) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University North America (309) United States (303) Western states (85) California (81) Pasadena (18) California Institute of Technology (18) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Göttingen (44) University of Göttingen (44) Alumni (20) Europe, Nordic countries (83) Denmark (39) Copenhagen (39) University of Copenhagen (39) Short-term academic staff (26) Europe, western (390) Switzerland (65) Zurich (49) ETH Zurich (32) Short-term academic staff (14) United Kingdom (235) Bristol (9) University of Bristol (9) Short-term academic staff (3) North America (529) United States (521) Southeastern states (38) Tennessee (8) Nashville (8) Vanderbilt University (8) Short-term academic staff (4) Western states (262) California (253) Pasadena (73) California Institute of Technology (73) Long-term academic staff (21) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) E (61) European Molecular Biology Organization (51) F (89) French Academy of Sciences (89) G (195) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards E-F (439) E (135) EMBO Membership (17) F (394) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) K-L (297) K (173) Kimber Genetics Award (5) L (183) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (50) complete name: Max Delbrück nobel prize: medicine award year: 1969 together with: Salvador Luria together with: Alfred Hershey prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 was awarded jointly to Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey and Salvador E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Max family name: Delbrück occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher occupation: geneticist occupation: virologist field of work: biophysics work location: Vanderbilt University, 2101 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37240, United States of America description: Max Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist. He helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1969/summary/> date birth: 1906 date death: 1981 usual name: Max Delbrück
