Salvador Luria

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Salvador Luria
Luria c. 1969
Born	Salvatore Luria August 13, 1912 (1912-08-13) Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Died	February 6, 1991(1991-02-06) (aged 78) Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	Italian American (since 1950)
Alma mater	University of Turin
Spouse	Zella Luria ​ (m. 1945)​
Children	1
Awards	The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1942) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1969)
Scientific career
Fields	Molecular biology
Institutions	Columbia University Indiana University University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral students	James D. Watson Jon Kabat-Zinn

Salvador Edward Luria (born Salvatore Luria; August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist, later a naturalized U.S. citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. Salvador Luria also showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited.