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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück

(4 Sep 1906 - 9 Mar 1981)

German-American microbiologist.

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Science Quotes by Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (1)

[About the structure of DNA] [T]he whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on...This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

— Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück

Quoted in Horace Freeland Judson, Eighth Day of Creation (1979)

See also: | DNA (28)

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