Renato Dulbecco - Three Nobels, just one class
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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2011 · Science & Technology
To listen to more of Renato Dulbecco’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFwzIooOixRbz6qqo-CwbTjK The Italian biologist Renato Dulbecco (1914-2012) had early success isolating a mutant of the polio virus which was used to create a life-saving vaccine. Later in his career, he initiated the Human Genome Project and was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for furthering our understanding of cancer caused by viruses.
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