Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
LiveScience
LiveScience
Tia Ghose

Science history: Experiment shows mutations arise spontaneously, supporting pillar of Darwinian evolution — Nov. 20, 1943

An illustration of bacteriophages attacking a bacterium.
QUICK FACTS

Milestone: Experiment shows mutations arise spontaneously

Date: Nov. 20, 1943

Where: Indiana University in Bloomington and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee

Who: Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria

In 1943, a physicist and a biologist published a paper that confirmed one of the central pillars of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.