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Max Delbrück
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching 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 subs…
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science · German–American biophysicist (1906–1981) · geneticist · university teacher · physicist · virologist · biophysicist · astrophysicist · molecular biologist · biologist · also Max Delbrück, Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, Delbrück
Born 4 September 1906 · Died 10 March 1981 · Q76807
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
Morgenpost: Max Delbrück Center Berlin: Forschung zu Herz und Genetik
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Nature: Max Delbrück Laboratory of the Max Planck Society (MDL)
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idw: Heike Graßmann wird Staatssekretärin in Sachsen – Max Delbrück Center gratuliert
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2023· 3 entries
Nature: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Germany
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BioWorld: Glycotope and Max Delbrück Center collaborate to explore combined use of Glycotargets and CAR technology
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EurekAlert!: The Max Delbrück Center celebrates 15 years of MDC-BIMSB
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2022· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Maike Sander named to lead the Max Delbrück Center
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2019· 1 entry
Berliner Zeitung: Max-Delbrück-Centrum in Berlin-Mitte: Ein Haus für die Biologie-Avantgarde
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2017· 1 entry
Princeton University: Bialek wins the APS Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics
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1981· 3 entries
Died 1981-03-10.
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“The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.”
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“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness.”
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1977· 1 entry
Retired from Caltech, remaining a Professor of Biology emeritus
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1969· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969).
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Won Mendel Medal (1968).
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1967· 2 entries
Won Gregor Mendel Medal (1967).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Kimber Genetics Award (1964).
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1945· 2 entries
Delbrück, Luria, and Hershey set up a course in bacteriophage genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York
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And led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics
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1943· 1 entry
And the eventual writing of the book What Is Life
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1942· 1 entry
Delbrück and Luria published on bacterial resistance to virus infection mediated by random mutation
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1941· 1 entry
Delbrück met Salvador Luria of Indiana University who began visiting Vanderbilt
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1939· 1 entry
The Foundation matched him up with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where from 1940 to 1947 he taught physics, yet had his laboratory in the biology department
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1937· 2 entries
Delbrück left Nazi Germany for America—first California, then Tennessee—becoming a US citizen in 1945
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Attained a fellowship from Rockefeller Foundation—which was launching the molecular biology research program—to research genetics of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, in California Institute of Technology's biol
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1935· 1 entry
Delbrück published a collaboration with Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky and Karl Zimmer, the major work Über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur
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1933· 2 entries
“scattering by a Coulomb field”
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On gamma rays' scattering by a Coulomb field's polarization of a vacuum
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1932· 1 entry
As an assistant to Lise Meitner, who was collaborating with Otto Hahn on irradiation of uranium with neutrons
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1930· 1 entry
Traveled through England, Denmark, and Switzerland
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-09-04.
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1801· 1 entry
First presented his theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, which stated that if an organism changes during life in order to adapt to its environment (for example stretches its neck to reach for tall trees), t
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