“Any biography worth reading should ideally turn around a personality, not around a ‘poet’, a ‘painter’, or a ‘scientist’. To examine Pasteur without his roots in French provincial bourgeois life or Einstein without his relation to Judaism is to diminish them.” S.E. Luria “A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube” An autobiography (Harper & Row, New York, 1984)
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In Memory of Salvador E. Luria
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Racker, E. Salvador E. Luria (1912–1991), a unique human being. J. Membrain Biol. 122, 189–192 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01871419
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