Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco (February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian-born American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncogenes. Oncogenes are genes in viruses that cause cancer when they infect animal cells.^[2]

Renato Dulbecco
Born	(1914-02-22)February 22, 1914 Catanzaro, Italy
Died	February 19, 2012(2012-02-19) (aged 97) La Jolla, California
Nationality	Italy, United States[1]
Alma mater	University of Turin
Known for	Reverse transcriptase
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975) Selman A. Waksman Award (1974)
Scientific career
Fields	Virologist
Institutions	California Institute of Technology Salk Institute London Research Institute

The prize was shared with Howard Temin and David Baltimore. Dulbecco studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi. His fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but later joined the resistance.

References

1. Dulbecco was a naturalized American citizen. See Dulbécco, Renato in www.treccani.it
2. "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975". Nobelprize.org. 12 Sep 2012