Baruch Samuel Blumberg
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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.[3] He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.
Baruch Samuel Blumberg | |
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Born | (1925-07-28)July 28, 1925 Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
Died | April 5, 2011(2011-04-05) (aged 85) |
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Known for | Hepatitis B vaccine |
Spouse |
Jean Liebesman (m. 1954) |
Children | 4 |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry, physiology |
Institutions | |
Official name | Baruch S. Blumberg (1925–2001) |
Designated | September 24, 2016[1] |
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Blumberg and Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering "new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases."[4] Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus, and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine.[3][5]