5 grams yeast extract
5 grams NaCl
1 litre distilled water
Adjust to pH 7.5.
Autoclave.
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10 grams tryptone 5 grams yeast extract 5 grams NaCl 1 litre distilled water Adjust to pH 7.5. Autoclave. |
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* Salvador Luria (1912-1991): Born in Turin, Italy, 1912; M.D., Turin University, 1935; Columbia University 1940; Indiana University; Nobel Prize 1969, Physiology/Medicine (shared with Max Delbruck, Al Hershey).
Luria was trained in medicine and interested in physics. After receiving his
medical degree from the University of Turin, he worked at the Radium Institute
in Paris, studying medical physics, including radiation biology. There he also
learned about bacteriophages. When Italy entered WWII Luria went to the U.S.,
working first at Columbia and then accepting a post at Indiana University.
He first met Max Delbruck in 1940, when Delbruck was at Vanderbilt and Luria was at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. Delbruck invited him to go join him at Cold Spring Harbor the following summer to do phage experiments. Luria accepted and thus the "phage group" was born. These scientists, located around the country, met at Cold Spring Harbor during the 1940s to do experiments and talk science. Their research goal was to identify the physical nature of the gene. To do this, they used bacterial viruses, called bacteriophage or simply "phage." These were the simplest "creatures" they could find that had genes - the biological equivalent of a hydrogen atom.
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