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Delbrück

American  
[del-brook, del-bryk] / ˈdɛl brʊk, ˈdɛl brük /

noun

  1. Max 1906–81, U.S. biologist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.


Delbrück British  
/ delˈbryk /

noun

  1. Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Delbrück Scientific  
/ dĕlbrk′ /
  1. German-born American biologist who was a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics. He discovered in 1946 that viruses can exchange genetic material to create new types of viruses. He shared a 1969 Nobel Prize for his work in viral genetics.


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They owe this ability to the interaction between their nervous and immune systems, as researchers led by Suphansa Sawamiphak from the Max Delbrück Center now report in the journal Developmental Cell.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023

“Practically every animal you look at will avoid AITC,” said Gary Lewin, a molecular physiologist at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.

From New York Times • May 30, 2019

It wasn’t an entirely new idea; Delbrück had suggested something of the kind in 1935.

From Nature • Aug. 28, 2018

“If you throw an ordinary person into 0%, it would be mere seconds or minutes,” said Jane Reznick, Park’s co-author, based at the Max Delbrück Center of Molecular Medicine in Berlin.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2017

Centuries later, the biologist Max Delbrück would joke that Aristotle should have been given the Nobel Prize posthumously—for the discovery of DNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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