Baruj Benacerraf

Also known as B. Benacerraf, B Benacerraf

Venezuelan-American immunologist

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Baruj Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920, and died on August 2, 2011. He received one Nobel Prize.

His work is recognized in several collections, including the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.

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Baruj Benacerraf appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Medicine collection — one of 233 entries. It also appears in National Medal of Science.

Within Vinony's link graph, Baruj Benacerraf is referenced by 663 other articles, and connects out to immunology, Allan McLeod Cormack and Mario Capecchi.

It is catalogued under topics including 1920 births, 2011 deaths and 20th-century Jewish medical doctors.

Its subject is documented across 61 Wikipedia language editions.

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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Caracas
Place of death: Boston
Sibling: Paul Benacerraf
Occupation: university teacher
Employer: New York University
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Field of work: immunology
Image: Baruj Benacerraf 1969.jpg

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date of birth: 1920-10-29
date of death: 2011-08-02
member of: The World Academy of Sciences
manner of death: natural causes
cause of death: pneumonia
Commons category: Baruj Benacerraf
name in native language: Baruj Benacerraf
interested in: immunology

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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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