The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976
Awarded on: 1976-10-14
"for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
Affiliations:
- The Institute for Cancer Research – Philadelphia, PA, USA
Baruch S. Blumberg
Born: 1925-07-28 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American doctor (1925–2011)
Biography
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 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.