Baruch Samuel Blumberg

Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
	Blumberg in 1999
Born	July 28, 1925; Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Died	April 5, 2011 (aged 85); Mountain View, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Union College (BA); Balliol College, University of Oxford (DPhil); Columbia University (MD);
Known for	Hepatitis B vaccine
Spouse	Jean Liebesman (m. 1954)
Children	4
Awards	Nobel Prize in Medicine (1976)
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry, physiology
Institutions	Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Fox Chase Cancer Center; University of Pennsylvania; NASA Astrobiology Institute; Library of Congress;
Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Official name	Baruch S. Blumberg (1925–2001)
Designated	September 24, 2016
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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. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

Blumberg and Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering "new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus, and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine.

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