Died 2012-02-19.
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Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was dr…
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science · Italian-American virologist (1914–2012) · virologist · physician · biologist · also Renato Dulbecco, Dulbecco
Born 22 February 1914 · Died 19 February 2012 · Q109553
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2012· 1 entry
1996· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1991).
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1986· 1 entry
Was among the scientists who launched the Human Genome Project
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1981).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1978).
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
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1974· 3 entries
Awarded Leeuwenhoek Lecture (1974).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1974).
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Awarded Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology (1974).
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1973· 3 entries
Awarded Marjory Stephenson Prize (1973).
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Awarded Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1973).
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Was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry Eagle
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1967).
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1965).
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Received the Marjory Stephenson Prize from the Society for General Microbiology
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1964).
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1962· 1 entry
Moved to the Salk Institute and then in 1972 to The Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now named the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute) where he was first appointed associate professor and then full professor
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research (1961).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1958).
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1954· 1 entry
Published “PLAQUE FORMATION AND ISOLATION OF PURE LINES WITH POLIOMYELITIS VIRUSES” in Journal of Experimental Medicine — cited 2,863 times.
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1940· 1 entry
Italy entered World War II and Dulbecco was recalled and sent to the front in France and Russia, where he was wounded
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1936· 2 entries
Was called up for military service as a medical officer, and later (1938) discharged
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Studied at University of Turin, Doctor of Medicine (1936).
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-02-22.
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