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Max Delbrück
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, FRS (September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist. He won the Nobel prize for discovering that bacteria become resistant to viruses (phages) as a result of genetic mutations.
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