Max Delbrück M.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
Co-Nobelists Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria

Award: "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"

Max Delbrück Mentor

• Karl Friedrich (his father Karl Bonhoeffer was Professor of Psychiatry), eight years older than Max Delbrück, was a physical chemist of high distinction, and became the mentor and lifelong friend of Delbrück.
• Among his friendships during the later student years, the most intense and influential one was with Werner Brock, later emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Freiburg
• Three postdoctoral years (1929-1932) abroad, in England, Switzerland, and Denmark. The stay in England, with its immersion into a new language and a new culture, had a vast effect on widening his outlook on life. In Switzerland and Denmark the associations with Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr shaped his attitude toward the pursuit of truth in science.