9 May 2021 /
Max Ludwig Henning Delbruck gets a virus
Nephew of a renowned brewer, Delbruck converted lifelong learning into a collaboration-enriched Nobel about bacteria and their viruses.
Max Delbruck (1906–1981), joint winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In what has to be one of the best titles for a paper ever submitted for publication – “The Sword and the Armour: science and practice in the brewing industry 1837–1914”, Ray Anderson, writing in the summer 2006 edition of
Brewery History, the journal of Britain’s Brewery History Society, discusses the competition between Germany and Britain in the international beer market.