Description
Renato Dulbecco was a virologist, born in Italy and a naturalized American citizen, who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.
Born
February 22nd, 1914 in Catanzaro / Died: Feb 19th, 2012
Last Changes
2012/02/28
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2008/01/04
New Response (OLD!) (Unknown/Other): Sent small Nobel photo and index card. Both ..
2006/03/23
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Prob.Auth)