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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Nobelist Baruch S. Blumberg, U.S. research physician who discovered an antigen that provokes an antibody response against hepatitis B.
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Apr 6, 2011 · Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and medical anthropologist who discovered the hepatitis B virus, showed that it could cause liver cancer and then helped develop a...
Baruch Samuel Blumberg. Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of hepatitis B virus. Born on July 28, 1925, in Brooklyn, NY, USA, he died on April 5, 2011, in Moffett Field, CA, USA, aged 85 years. Although celebrated for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1976, Baruch “Barry” Blumberg's enquiring mind led him ...
- Geoff Watts
- 2011
May 17, 2018 · Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 1925–2011, American biochemist and medical anthropologist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., B.S. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1946, M.D. Columbia, 1951, Ph.D. Oxford, 1957. From 1957 to 1964 he worked at the National Institutes of Health [1].
Baruch Samuel Blumberg was a Jewish American doctor and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Blumberg (born July 28, 1925; died April 5, 2011) was born in in New York City. In 1943, he joined the U.S. Navy and finished college under military sponsorship and left active duty in 1946.
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Joint winner of the 1976 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, he was an extraordinary man whose work moved across the fields of virology, immunology, anthropology and genetics. Born in New York City, he was the son of Meyer Blumberg, a lawyer, and his wife, Ida.
