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Baruj Benacerraf

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Baruj Benacerraf , 1920-, American immunologist, b. Caracas, Venezuela, grad. Columbia Univ. (1942). Raised in Paris, he came to the United States at the outset of World War II. He earned his M.D. in 1945 and worked (1950-56) as a researcher in Paris before becoming a professor at New York Univ. (1957-68) and Harvard (1970-). His research led to the discovery of genetic structures that regulate immunological responses, for which he shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset ) the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Author not available, BENACERRAF, BARUJ. , The... Read more
The 1980s: Medicine and Health: Awards
THE 1980s: MEDICINE AND HEALTH: AWARDS Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine Or physiology 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (United States, born in Venezuela), George Snell (United States), and Jean Dausset (France) for their studies of antigens, the... Read more
George Davis Snell
...identification of the H-2 gene complex in mice helped make future organ transplants possible. Snell, Jean Dausset , and Baruj Benacerraf shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the genetic basis of immune... Read more

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THEY DO MEDICINE IN A FAMILY WAY FATHER AND DAUGHTER, BARUJ AND BERYL BENACERRAF HAVE MADE THEIR MARK IN BOSTON
; Baruj and Annette Benacerraf were enjoying a sun-drenched August...pronounced Ben-ah-se-rahff) said. Baruj Benacerraf is very much the beneficent patriarch...personal routes. Fleeing poverty, Baruj Benacerraf's father, a Spanish Morroccan Jew... Read more
LOUIS B. MAYER'S LAST BIG PRODUCTION
; ...Selznick, along with the institute's president, Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, its board chairman, Vincent O'Reilly, and former...a scientist, I have never seen better facilities," Benacerraf told the gathering. "The laboratories are incredibly... Read more
Researcher admits tampering with data. (Claudio Milanese, Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
; ...the results, Dana-Farber President Baruj Benacerraf told SCIENCE NEWS. The researcher...responded with a letter, which, Benacerraf says, is in our possession. In the letter, according to Benacerraf, the type of admission that have... Read more
National Medals Are Pinned on 30 Scientists; At Ceremony, Bush Calls Honorees `Trailblazers, Real-Life Pioneers'
; ...commercial products." Bush singled out researchers Baruj Benacerraf, president of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston...development of scientific thought. In addition to Benacerraf and Thomas, the award winners in science were: Elkan... Read more
Obituary: Professor Philip Gell
; ...fruitful collaboration with the American immunologist Baruj Benacerraf at Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, resulting...fragments of proteins. As Emil Unanue (a colleague of Benacerraf and Gell) later acknowledged, this study laid the... Read more
Academy of Humanism names 10 new members. (Jihad-OP-ED).
; ...conservative legislative action in 1996. BARUJ BENACERRAF (United States) Immunologist Baruj Benacerraf received the Nobel Prize in Physiology...disorders such as HIV/AIDS. Born in Venezuela, Benacerraf began his research career in France before... Read more
7 AREA RESEARCHERS WIN SCIENCE AWARDS
; ...Technology yesterday. None are from Massachusetts. Two of the science medal winners previously won the Nobel Prize. Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, chairman of pathology at Harvard Medical School and president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was awarded the... Read more
Nobel Prize-Winning Biologist George Snell Dies at Age 92
; ...significance in studying cancer and infectious diseases. Dr. Snell shared the 1980 award with two other scientists, Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset. Dr. Snell, recognized for his patience and diligence, began his research at a time when genes could... Read more
Late-summer titles promise adventure, depth.
; ...street violence. From Caracas to Stockholm: A Life in Medical Science by Baruj Benacerraf (Prometheus). Harvard Medical School professor and Nobel laureate Benacerraf tells of his Jewish family's flight from the Nazis to the United States... Read more
Science center gets a match New director brings love of learning, experience
; ...School, focusing on bacteriology and immunology. She spent the last five of those years working directly for Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, who was investigating the genetic bases of the immune system -- work that won him a Nobel Prize in 1980 and then... Read more

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