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Baruch Samuel Blumberg
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.
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science · American doctor (1925–2011) · physician · anthropologist · virologist · university teacher · inventor · biochemist · geneticist · also Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Baruch Blumberg, Baruch S. Blumberg, Barry Blumberg, Blumberg
Born 28 July 1925 · Died 5 April 2011 · Q105830
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2011· 5 entries
Jewish Journal: Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 1925-2011
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Shortly after giving the keynote speech at the International Lunar Research Park Exploratory Workshop held at NASA Ames Research Center
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Died 2011-04-05.
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In recognition of Blumberg's long professional and personal association with the department of biochemistry and the Glycobiology Institute, Oxford University established the Baruch Blumberg Professorship in Virology
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The Library of Congress and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the establishment of the Baruch S
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2010).
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2005· 1 entry
Blumberg also served as the president of the American Philosophical Society
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2002· 1 entry
Stated that "[Saving lives] is what drew me to medicine
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2001· 1 entry
Blumberg was named to the Library of Congress Scholars Council, a body of distinguished scholars that advises the Librarian of Congress
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2000· 1 entry
Blumberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1998).
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1994· 1 entry
Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Blumberg participated in the founding of the Hepatitis B Foundation (HBF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for hepatitis B and improving the lives of those affected by hepatitis B worldwide
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (1979).
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1976).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
And he held the rank of University Professor of Medicine and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania starting in 1977
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1964· 2 entries
Blumberg became a member of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) of the Lankenau Hospital Research Institute in Philadelphia, known today as the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), which later joined the Fo
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While studying "yellow jaundice" (hepatitis), he discovered a surface antigen for hepatitis B in the blood of an Australian aborigine, hence initially called the 'Australian antigen'
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1946· 1 entry
Studied at Union College (1946).
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-07-28.
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