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.

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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

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Delbrück Scientific  

/ dĕl′br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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The project was funded by the DFG as a joint collaboration between the Max Delbrück Center and the Medical University Rostock.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

This year, Dr. Cavagna and Dr. Giardina’s work on starlings earned them the prestigious Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published What Is Life?, which built on work by biophysicist Max Delbrück to suggest that genes were “aperiodic crystals”.

From Nature ● Apr. 15, 2019

“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