BIOLOGIST

Salvador Luria

1912 - 1991

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salvador Luria has received more than 299,867 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Salvador Luria is the 157th most popular biologist (down from 140th in 2019), the 1,304th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,248th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Biologist.

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  • 8.29

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  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Salvador Luria ranks 157 out of 1,097. Before him are Julius Richard Petri, Adolf Engler, Martin Evans, George Davis Snell, Leland H. Hartwell, and Norman Borlaug. After him are Olaus Rudbeck, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Michel Adanson, Charles Bonnet, Joshua Lederberg, and Susumu Tonegawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Salvador Luria ranks 61. Before him are Don Siegel, John Payne, Elsa Morante, Pedro Armendáriz, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Ertuğrul Osman. After him are Hermann Graf, Rodolfo Gucci, Herbert C. Brown, Georg Solti, Petar Stambolić, and Pat Nixon. Among people deceased in 1991, Salvador Luria ranks 45. Before him are Don Siegel, Gino Colaussi, James Irwin, Tom of Finland, Gene Tierney, and Ivan Kozhedub. After him are Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Shapour Bakhtiar, Richard Stone, Tony Richardson, Robert Maxwell, and Alfonso García Robles.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvador Luria ranks 1,304 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucilio Vanini (1585), Amintore Fanfani (1908), Mario Del Monaco (1915), Charles I, Duke of Savoy (1468), Ascanio Sforza (1455), and Piero Manzoni (1933). After him are Andrea Dandolo (1306), Lorenzo Buffon (1929), Authari (540), Cennino Cennini (1360), Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (1328), and Rodolfo Gucci (1912).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Italy

Among biologists born in Italy, Salvador Luria ranks 6. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729), Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522), Gabriele Falloppio (1523), Giovanni Sartori (1924), and Mario Capecchi (1937). After him are Renato Dulbecco (1914), Giuseppe Acerbi (1773), Mikhail Tsvet (1872), Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922), Carlo Allioni (1728), and Odoardo Beccari (1843).

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