Renato Dulbecco Biography

Renato Dulbecco biography

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NAME: Renato Dulbecco
OCCUPATION: Educator, Scientist
BIRTH DATE: February 22, 1914
DEATH DATE: February 19, 2012
EDUCATION: University of Turin
PLACE OF BIRTH: Catanzaro, Italy
PLACE OF DEATH: La Jolla, California

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Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist best known winning the Nobel Prize for pioneering the growing of viruses in culture in the 1950s.

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Born in Italy in 1914, Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist best known winning the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Howard M. Temin and David Baltimore. The three men pioneered the growing of viruses in culture in the 1950s, lending insight into cell growth. The research helped pave the way for studying cancer cells so scientists might better fight cancer. Dulbecco died in 2012 in La Jolla, California.