Max Delbrück
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Delbrück in the early 1940s
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| Born | Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück September 4, 1906 Berlin, German Empire |
| Died | March 9, 1981 (aged 74) Pasadena, California, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Biophysics |
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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry Vanderbilt University Caltech |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, ForMemRS (September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981), a German–American biophysicist, 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.
Delbrück was born in Berlin, German Empire. His mother was granddaughter of Justus von Liebig, eminent chemist, while his father Hans Delbrück was a history professor at the University of Berlin. In 1937, Max left Nazi Germany for America—first California, then Tennessee—becoming a US citizen in 1945. In 1941, he married Mary Bruce. They had four children.
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