Renato Dulbecco was born in Catanzaro, Italy, in 1914. He studied medicine in Turin before joining the Italian Resistance movement against Benito Mussolini during the Second World War.
After the war, Dulbecco emigrated to the United States and worked with Salvador Luria at the University of Indiana before moving on to the University of California.
Won the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award in 1964.
