| Salvador Luria  AKA Salvador Edward Luria
Born: 13-Aug-1912
Birthplace: Turin, Italy
Died: 6-Feb-1991
Location of death: Lexington, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Biologist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Demonstrated natural selection in bacteria Military service: Italian Army (1935-38) Father: Davide Lurie
Mother: Ester Sacerdote
Wife: Zella Hurwitz (Professor of Psychology at Tufts, m. 18-Apr-1945, one son)
Son: Daniel David Luria (MIT professor)
Medical School: MD, University of Torino (1935, summa cum laude)
Scholar: Fellow, Institute of Radium, Paris (1938-40)
Scholar: Research Assistant, Columbia University (1940-42)
Professor: Bacteriology, Indiana University Bloomington (1943-50)
Professor: Professor of Microbiology, University of Chicago (1950-59)
Professor: Professor of Microbiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1959-64)
Professor: Sedgwick Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964-70)
Professor: Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970-91)
Nobel Prize for Medicine 1969 (with Max Delbrück and Alfred D. Hershey)
National Book Award for The Sciences 1974 for Life: The Unfinished Experiment
Guggenheim Fellowship 1942
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Naturalized US Citizen 1947
Author of books:
A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: an Autobiography (1984, memoir)
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