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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.
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...
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"
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 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 his discovery of the hepatitis B virus. He and his colleagues discovered the virus in 1967, developed the blood test that is used to detect the virus, and invented the first hepatitis B vaccine in 1969.
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. (b. 1925) Quick Reference. (1925–2011) American physician. Blumberg was born in New York City and studied physics and mathematics at Union College, Schenectady, and at Columbia, where, after a year, he changed to medical studies.
May 11, 2011 · Geneticist whose discovery led to a vaccine for hepatitis B. In the 2,000 years since Hippocrates described the skin-yellowing condition he termed ikterus, no single event has been more pivotal...
