Delbrück, Max

Max Delbrück
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Name	Delbrück, Max Gender: M
Birthname	Max Henning Ludwig Delbrück
born on	4 September 1906 at 12:45 (= 12:45 PM )
Place	Berlin-Charlottenb., Germany, 52n32, 13e16
Timezone	MET h1e (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	11°01' 29°18 Asc. 26°59'

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Max Delbrück
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Biography

German-American biophysicist who helped launch 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 unravelling 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.

In 1937, Max left Nazi Germany for America—first California, then Tennessee—becoming a US citizen in 1945. In 1941, he married Mary Bruce. They had four children.

Delbrück's brother Justus, a lawyer, as well as his sister Emmi Bonhoeffer were active along with his brothers-in-law Klaus Bonhoeffer and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in resistance to Nazism. Found guilty by the People's Court for roles in the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, the three men were executed in 1945 by the RSHA.

Max Delbrück died, aged 74, on the evening of 9 March 1981 at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• associate relationship with Luria, Salvador (born 13 August 1912). Notes: Shared 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• sibling relationship with Bonhoeffer, Emmi (born 13 May 1905)

• sibling relationship with Delbrück, Justus (born 25 November 1902)

• has other family relationship with Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (born 4 February 1906). Notes: Brothers-in-law

Events

• Work : Prize 1969 (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

• Death, Cause unspecified 9 March 1981 (Age 74)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth registry entry from Berlin archives.

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (PhD in physics)

• Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (Mary Bruce)

• Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Four)

• Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Grant, Scholarship, etc. (Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, 1937-1939)

• Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (German emigrant to USA)

• Vocation : Education : Researcher

• Vocation : Education : Teacher

• Vocation : Science : Biology (Biophysicist)

• Vocation : Science : Physics (Biophysicist)

• Notable : Awards : Nobel prize (Physiology or Medicine)

• Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator (Delbrück scattering)

• Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator (Saffman–Delbrück model)