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Max Delbruck Biography

Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, ForMemRS (September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981), a German–American biophysicist, 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 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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No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

Inspirational, Dinosaurs, Study, Present, Infer, Existence

The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on. . . This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

Children, Dna, Years, Greatest, Wonderful, Explain

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

Children, Science, Ambitious, Bacterial, Ask

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

Science, Cells, Years, Billion, Ancestors, Cell

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.

Dream, People, Going Out, Obtain, Science

If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (. . . ) you nail it down (. . . ). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".

Principles, Nails, Sloppiness, Principle, Reproducible, Sloppy

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved. "

Taught Us, Tree, Details, Wonder, Life, Detail

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Strong, Hard Work, Adventure, Drive, Viruses

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said. . . that science is a haven for freaks, that people go into science because they are misfits, and that it is a sheltered place where they can spin their own yarn and have recognition, be tolerated and happy, and have approval for it.

Freaks, Motivation, People, Sheltered, Yarn

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. . . . While the artist's communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work.

Communication, Book, Knowledge, Common, Dust