Life Map of Max Delbruck

born in 1906 in Berlin

Ph.D. 1930, Gottingen, Theoretical Physics (quantum mechanics), under Max Born.

1932, Berlin, to work with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner

Went to Copenhagen to work with Niels Bohr, who became his mentor.

1937 Rockefeller Fellowship to Caltech, w/ Emory Ellis

1940 Instructor of Physics, Vanderbilt University

1947 Caltech

1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey

died in 1981