He studied physics and in 1947 he was one of the first students of Max Delbrück in postwar Berlin.
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He became director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, shared with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück for their discovery on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure.