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Baruj Benacerraf

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Baruj Benacerraf

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Also known as B. Benacerraf, B Benacerraf

Venezuelan-American immunologist

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Baruj Benacerraf was a scientist born on October 29, 1920, and died on August 2, 2011. His published works include *The Role of products of the histocompatibility gene complex in immune responses*, *Immunogenetics and immunodeficiency*, *Immunological tolerance; mechanisms and potential therapeutic applications*, and *From Caracas to Stockholm*. He received one Nobel Prize and is recognized in the Nobel Medicine collection.

Benacerraf is also included in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Laureates collection. His work has been referenced by 663 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1920
Works
9

Top works

  • The Role of products of the histocompatibility gene complex in immune responses
  • Immunogenetics and immunodeficiency
  • Immunological tolerance; mechanisms and potential therapeutic applications
  • Immunogenetics and immunodeficiency
  • From Caracas to Stockholm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Histocompatibility-Linked Immune Response Genes

    · 1972 · cited 855x

  2. Systematic approach to sonographic evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group

    · 2016 · cited 789x

  3. Terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of myometrium and uterine masses: a consensus opinion from the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) group

    · 2015 · cited 687x

  4. What Numbers Could not Be

    · 1965 · cited 576x

  5. Mathematical Truth

    · 1973 · cited 562x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1980

    “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”

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Encyclopedic overview

Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (/bəˈrʊk ˌbɛnəseɪˈrɑːf/; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan and American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.

Early life and education

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