Salvador Luria
An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2022
Summary
Blacklisted from federal funding review panels but awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on bacteriophage, biologist Salvador Luria (1912-1991) was as much an activist as a scientist. In this first full-length biography of Luria, Rena Selya draws on extensive archival research; interviews with Luria’s family, colleagues, and students; and FBI documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to create a compelling portrait of a man committed to both science and society.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262046466 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262046466 |
| Author: | Rena Selya |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“Microbiologist Salvador Luria was a man of firm political convictions. The day before he won a share in the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he talked to state legislators in Massachusetts, attended a peace convocation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and joined a protest against the Vietnam War. The FBI had begun monitoring him a few years after he arrived in the United States in 1940, fleeing fascist Italy. The Nobel didn’t stop them.
Luria shared the prize with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey for research on bacteriophages, viruses that invade and often kill bacteria. This work tilled the ground for the fields of bacterial genetics, virology and molecular biology. Science historian Rena Selya distils his story in her well-researched Salvador Luria.”
—Nature
About The Author
Rena Selya
Rena Selya is the archivist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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