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Max Delbrück

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Max Delbrück's Degrees

PhD Physics University of Göttingen

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According to Wikipedia, Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering.

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Max Delbrück's Published Works

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Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance. (1943) (2108)
Brownian motion in biological membranes. (1975) (1511)
THE GROWTH OF BACTERIOPHAGE (1939) (653)
THE GROWTH OF BACTERIOPHAGE AND LYSIS OF THE HOST (1940) (278)
Statistical Fluctuations in Autocatalytic Reactions (1940) (246)
THE NATURE OF THE INTERMOLECULAR FORCES OPERATIVE IN BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES. (1940) (188)
The Mechanism of Genetic Recombination in Phage. (1953) (180)
Action and Transmission Spectra of Phycomyces. (1960) (163)
The Burst Size Distribution in the Growth of Bacterial Viruses (Bacteriophages) (1945) (142)
MUTUAL EXCLUSION BETWEEN AN INFECTING PHAGE AND A CARRIED PHAGE (1951) (139)
Induced mutations in bacterial viruses. (1946) (124)
Interference Between Bacterial Viruses (1945) (114)
ADSORPTION OF BACTERIOPHAGE UNDER VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE HOST (1940) (108)
Electron Microscope Studies of Bacterial Viruses (1943) (104)
A physicist looks at biology (1949) (103)
Replacement of riboflavin by an analogue in the blue-light photoreceptor of Phycomyces. (1981) (84)
Photoreceptors for biosynthesis, energy storage and vision (1978) (83)
System analysis for the light growth reactions of Phycomyces (1956) (78)
PHOTOTROPISM IN PHYCOMYCES MUTANTS LACKING β‐CAROTENE (1977) (74)
Responses of Phycomyces indicating optical excitation of the lowest triplet state of riboflavin. (1976) (70)
ON THE REPLICATION OF DESOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA). (1954) (60)
Light-induced carotene synthesis in Phycomyces (1979) (60)
Genetic recombination in sexual crosses of phycomyces. (1975) (59)
A physicist's renewed look at biology: twenty years later. (1970) (58)
Interplay between the Reactions to Light and to Gravity in Phycomyces (1961) (55)
Meiosis in Phycomyces. (1975) (43)
Note added in proof by M. Delbrück (1933) (39)
Mind or Matter? (1985) (37)
Phycomyces (1969) (36)
Biochemical Mutants of Bacterial Viruses (1948) (35)
Avoidance response, house response, and wind responses of the sporangiophore of Phycomyces (1975) (34)
Mind from matter?: An essay on evolutionary epistemology (1986) (30)
A THEORY OF AUTOCATALYTIC SYNTHESIS OF POLYPEPTIDES AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE PROBLEM OF CHROMOSOME REPRODUCTION (1941) (28)
Effects of Specific Antisera on the Growth of Bacterial Viruses (Bacteriophages) (1945) (28)
LIGHT‐INDUCED CAROTENE SYNTHESIS IN MUTANTS OF PHYCOMYCES WITH ABNORMAL PHOTOTROPISM (1980) (26)
Photoreactions in Phycomyces Responses to the stimulation of narrow test areas with ultraviolet light (1961) (25)
Absorption and Screening in Phycomyces (1967) (24)
PHOTOREACTIONS IN PHYCOMYCES (1959) (21)
The interaction of inert gases (1930) (21)
Light and life III (1976) (21)
Signal transducers: terra incognita of molecular biology. (1972) (19)
Was Bose-Einstein statistics arrived at by serendipity? (1980) (18)
Radiation and the Hereditary Mechanism (1940) (17)
An unstable nuclear gene in phycomyces. (1979) (13)
Cosmic Rays and the Origin of Species (1936) (11)
Spontaneous Mutations of Bacteria (1945) (11)
Effects of Cold Periods on the Stimulus-Response System of Phycomyces (1970) (5)
What is Life? and What is Truth? (1945) (4)
Phage and the origins of molecular biology : [essays] (1966) (4)
Cybernetics of the insect optomotor response (1966) (4)
Interview with Max Delbruck (1979) (4)
Cellular mechanisms in differentiation and growth : the fourteenth Symposium of the Soc. for the Study of Development and Growth (1956) (1)
Viruses 1950 : proceedings of a conference on the similarities and dissimilarities between viruses attacking animals, plants, and bacteria, respectively, held at the California Institute of Technology, March 20-22, 1950 (1950) (1)
Possible Existence of Multiply Charged Particles of Mass One (1932) (1)
Note on the availability of phycomyces mutants deficient in β-carotene biosynthesis (1968) (1)
Viruses 1950. Proceedings of a conference on the similarities and dissimilarities between viruses attacking animals, plants, and bacteria, respectively. Held at the California Institute of Technology, Mar. 20-22, 1 With contributions by J.G. Bald [and others] Edited by M. Delbrück. (1950) (1)
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ABOUT THE PROGRAM (1953) (1)
Bacterial viruses and sex. (1948) (0)
Scientific ties and human rights. (1979) (0)
Discussion to IV. Light and dark adaption of the photoreceptor cell (1977) (0)
Second Revision: Proposal on Nomenclature (1946) (0)
Radiation and Cellular Response Report of the Second John Lawrence Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Physical and Biomedical Sciences, Held June 3rd and 4th, 1981 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1983) (0)
Photoreactions in Phycomyces (1961) (0)

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