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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 262,927 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Max Delbrück is the 213th most popular physicist (up from 235th in 2019), the 827th most popular biography from Germany (up from 913th in 2019) and the 32nd 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 213 out of 717. Before him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Herbert Kroemer, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Simon van der Meer, Jerome Isaac Friedman, and Vitaly Ginzburg. After him are George E. Smith, David Brewster, Ratko Janev, Georg von Békésy, Bertram Brockhouse, and Tsung-Dao Lee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Max Delbrück ranks 57. Before him are Estée Lauder, Marcel Carné, Ernst Chain, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Empress Wanrong, and Albert Sabin. After him are Ettore Majorana, Vera Menchik, James Hadley Chase, Fredric Brown, Anthony Mann, and André Weil. Among people deceased in 1981, Max Delbrück ranks 28. Before him are Omar Bradley, A. J. Cronin, Samuel Barber, Georges Brassens, Joseph Murphy, and Karl Böhm. After him are Mehmet Shehu, Abel Gance, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Miroslav Krleža, David Wechsler, and Zarah Leander.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Delbrück ranks 827 out of 6,142. Before him are Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Gottfried Feder (1883), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Felix Wankel (1902), and Joseph Wirth (1879). After him are Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1823), Theodor Fontane (1819), Therese Neumann (1898), Fritz Haarmann (1879), John Rabe (1882), and Clemens Brentano (1778).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Max Delbrück ranks 32. Before him are Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), Hans Geiger (1882), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Wolfgang Paul (1913), and Herbert Kroemer (1928). After him are Carl von Linde (1842), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), John B. Goodenough (1922), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), and Klaus Fuchs (1911).

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