Baruj Benacerraf
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 13 years ago |
Date of birth | October 29,1920 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Date of died | August 2,2011 |
Died | Jamaica Plain |
Boston | |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Spouse | Annette Benacerraf |
Children | Beryl Rica Benacerraf |
Siblings | Paul Benacerraf |
Awards | National Medal of Science |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences | |
Education | Virginia Commonwealth University Health |
Parents | Abraham Benacerraf |
Henrietta Lasry | |
Born | Caracas |
Venezuela | |
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ID | 737028 |
Baruj Benacerraf Life story
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-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."