막스 델브뤽

소개

막스 루트비히 헤닝 델브뤼크(독일어: Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, ForMemRS, 1906년 9월 4일 ~ 1981년 3월 9일)은 독일 제국 베를린 출신의 미국의 생물학자이다. 1969년에 바이러스의 복제 기작과 유전적 구조를 발견한 공로로 앨프리드 허시, 살바도르 에드워드 루리아와 함께 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상했다.

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.