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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. MAX LUDWIG HENNING DELBRÜCKSeptember 4, 1906-March 10, 1981 
BY WILLIAM HAYES MAX DELBRÜCK, or just Max as he was called by all his associates, was one of the outstanding natural scientists of our time. A man of rare intellectual ability, and clarity of thought and perception, he excelled in theoretical physics, biology, and philosophy, and possessed a deep knowledge and appreciation of the arts. His dedication to truth, and his intolerance of half-truths and intellectual pretension, were sometimes expressed with a disturbing frankness and abruptness of manner, often construed as arrogance by those who did not know him well. His disclaimer, ''I don't believe a word of it," when told of some new experimental result or hypothesis, became famous among his colleagues. In fact, Max was very gregarious and had a rich vein of friendship and affection in his nature which he was always ready to share with others of all ages. Above all, Max was a born leader whose Socratic influence on those who worked with him was enormous, whose rare praise was something to be coveted and remembered, and whose criticism was welcomed with respect; although Reprinted from Biographical Memoirs, The Royal Society, London, England, 1982.
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