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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Example Sentences

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

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

Here, he cites experiments by another former quantum physicist, Max Delbrück, whose use of high-energy radiation to induce genetic mutations allowed him to estimate a gene’s size at around 1,000 atoms.

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

For some non-Jews, such as Erwin Schrödinger and nuclear chemist Max Delbrück, the situation was morally untenable.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee