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Baruj Benacerraf (/ b ɪ ˈ n æ s ər ə f /; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self."
Apr 17, 2024 · Baruj Benacerraf (born October 29, 1920, Caracas, Venezuela—died August 2, 2011, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a Venezuelan-born American pathologist and immunologist who shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of genes that regulate immune responses and of the role that some of these genes play in autoimmune diseases.
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I was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on October 29, 1920 of Spanish-Jewish ancestry. My father, a self-made business man, was a textile merchant and importer. He was born in Spanish Morocco, whereas my mother was born and raised in French Algeria and brought up in the French culture. When I was five years old, my family moved to Paris where we ...
Sep 13, 2011 · Baruj Benacerraf, the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology Emeritus, died Aug. 2, 2011, at his home in Jamaica Plain. He was 90. Benacerraf, was a Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and a brilliant, visionary leader—a former president of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who, from 1980 to 1992, guided the Institute through a period of tremendous growth.
Aug 2, 2011 · As a young man, Baruj Benacerraf was encouraged to follow his father into the family textile business. He left his native Caracas, Venezuela, for the United States and Philadelphia's Textile Engineering School in 1939, but quit after just a few weeks, moved much more by the mysteries of science than that of machines, yarns, and patterns.
Baruj Benacerraf was a remarkable scientist, educator, and administrator who had an immense impact on biology and medicine through his path-breaking scientific achieve-ments, his training of a generation of immunologists, and his leadership of biomedical research enterprises. Baruj was born in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela, to Sephardic Jewish ...
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Aug 2, 2011 · Baruj Benacerraf. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980. Born: 29 October 1920, Caracas, Venezuela. Died: 2 August 2011, Boston, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that ...
