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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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 was awarded jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
Nobelist Baruch S. Blumberg, U.S. research physician who discovered an antigen that provokes an antibody response against hepatitis B.
Apr 5, 2011 · Baruch S. Blumberg. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976. Born: 28 July 1925, New York, NY, USA. Died: 5 April 2011, Moffett Field, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: The Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
In 1976, Dr. Blumberg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the hepatitis B virus. He and his colleagues discovered the virus in 1967, and invented the first hepatitis B vaccine in 1969. Dr. Blumberg wrote a fascinating, brief autobiography at the request of the Nobel Prize committee, which is posted here.
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...
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 into a range of quite ...
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 Moff ett Field, CA, USA, aged 85 years. Although celebrated for his discovery of the hepatitis of this kind led him to a protein associated with what was then known as serum hepatitis.
Baruch Blumberg, M.D., is best known for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus, sharing the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Dr. Blumberg ultimately created a vaccine against hep B that would save millions of lives.
Apr 5, 2011 · 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.
