What is Salvador Luria?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Salvador Edward Luria | image = Salvador E. Luria ca.1969.jpg | image_width = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = [[Turin]], [[Italy]] | death_date = | death_place = Lexington, [[Massachusetts]] | nationality = [[Italy]]; [[U.S.]] | citizenship = Italy (1912–1991)<br>United States (1950–1991) | field = [[Molecular biology]] | work_institutions = [[Columbia University]]<br />[[Indiana University]]<br />[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]<br />[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] | alma_mater = [[University of Turin]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = [[James D. Watson]] | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] | footnotes = }} '''Salvador Edward Luria''' ([[Turin]], [[Italy]], August 13, 1912 – [[Lexington]], [[Massachusetts]], February 6, 1991) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[microbiology|microbiologist]]. He won the 1969 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for his pioneering work with [[Max Delbrück]] and [[Alfred Hershey]] on [[phage]]s in [[molecular biology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1969/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969|website=www.nobelprize.org}}</ref> ==Biography== Luria was born Salvatore Edoardo Luria in [[Turin]], [[Italy]] to an influential Italian [[Sephardic]] [[Jew]]ish family. He attended the medical school at the [[University of Turin]]. There, he met two other future [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureates: [[Rita Levi-Montalcini]] and [[Renato Dulbecco]]. In Rome, he was introduced to [[Max Delbrück]]'s theories on the [[gene]] as a molecule and began to formulate methods for testing genetic theory with [[bacteriophage]]s, which are [[virus]]es that infect [[bacteria]]. In 1938, he received a fellowship to study in the [[United States]], where he intended to wor