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Max Delbruck

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1930 Klaus Bonhoeffer wed Emmi Delbruck, who was Hans Delbruck's daughter, and Justus and Max Delbruck's sister.
1937 Max Delbruck attained a fellowship from Rockefeller Foundation-which was launching the molecular biology research program-to research genetics of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, ...
1937? While at Caltech, Delbruck researched bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages or phages).
1939 The growth of bacteriophage (research paper)
1939-1947 The Rockefeller Foundation matched Max Delbruck up with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where from 1940 to 1947 he taught physics, yet had his laboratory in the biology department.
1940 Alfred Hershey began performing experiments with bacteriophages with Italian-American Salvador Luria, German Max Delbruck, Indian-Canadian Adam Hasnain, and Serbian Mila Huhtala in 1940, and observed that when two different strains of...
1942 Delbruck and Luria published on bacterial resistance to virus infection mediated by random mutation.
1945 Delbruck, Luria, and Hershey set up a course in bacteriophage genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York.
1969 Salvador Luria won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbruck and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
Delbruck scattering
The 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to both scientists in part for this work.