PHYSICIST

Max Delbrück

1906 - 1981

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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (German: [maks ˈdɛl.bʁʏk] ; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) 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 substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Delbrück has received more than 283,217 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Delbrück is the 261st most popular physicist (down from 213th in 2019), the 909th most popular biography from Germany (down from 827th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Physicist.

Max Delbrück is most famous for his work on the structure of DNA.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Max Delbrück ranks 261 out of 851. Before him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, Otto Robert Frisch, Rainer Weiss, and Syukuro Manabe. After him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Julian Schwinger, John Cockcroft, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Daniel Rutherford, and John Vincent Atanasoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Max Delbrück ranks 56. Before him are Robert E. Howard, Marie José of Belgium, Marcelo Caetano, Estée Lauder, Bugsy Siegel, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark. After him are Ernst Chain, James Hadley Chase, André Weil, Philip Johnson, Hans Aumeier, and Ettore Majorana. Among people deceased in 1981, Max Delbrück ranks 29. Before him are William Saroyan, Samuel Barber, A. J. Cronin, Karl Böhm, Miroslav Krleža, and Georges Brassens. After him are Abel Gance, Will Durant, Joseph Murphy, Zarah Leander, Mehmet Shehu, and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Delbrück ranks 909 out of 7,253. Before him are Rainer Weiss (1932), Gershom Scholem (1897), Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Bertha Benz (1849), Günter Netzer (1944), and Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857). After him are Ernst Chain (1906), Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), and Leo Strauss (1899).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Max Delbrück ranks 39. Before him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), and Rainer Weiss (1932). After him are August Kundt (1839), Carl von Linde (1842), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Friedrich Hund (1896), and Pascual Jordan (1902).

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