Baruch Samuel Blumberg
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (born July 28, 1925) is an American scientist and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the Hepatitis B virus, and later developed the diagnostic test and vaccine for it.
Blumberg first attended Far Rockaway High School in the early 40s, a school that also produced fellow laureates Burton Richter and Richard Feynman.[1] He then attended Union College in Schenectady, NY and graduated with honors in 1945. He then entered the graduate program in mathematics at Columbia University but his interests turned to medicine and he enrolled at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he received his M.D. in 1951. He remained at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for the next four years, first as a resident and then as an intern. He then began graduate work in biochemistry at Balliol College, Oxford and earned his Ph.D. in 1957.
He has been a member of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia since 1964 and has held the rank of University Professor of Medicine and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1977. Concurrently, he was Master of Balliol College from 1989 to 1994. From 1999 to 2002, he was also director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
References
- Payen, Jean-Louis & Rongières, Michel (2003), "[History of hepatitis. 3. The age of antigens and electronic microscopy]", La Revue du praticien 53 (1): 7-10, 2003 Jan 1, PMID:12673918, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12673918>
- Blumberg, Baruch S (2002), "Baruch Blumberg--hepatitis B and beyond. Interviewed by Pam Das.", The Lancet infectious diseases 2 (12): 767-71, 2002 Dec, PMID:12467696, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12467696>
- Raju, T N (1999), "The Nobel chronicles. 1976: Baruch S Blumberg (b 1925); Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923).", Lancet 354 (9187): 1394, 1999 Oct 16, PMID:10533898, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10533898>
- Blumberg, B S; Alter, H J & Visnich, S (1984), "Landmark article Feb 15, 1965: A "new" antigen in leukemia sera. By Baruch S. Blumberg, Harvey J. Alter, and Sam Visnich.", JAMA 252 (2): 252-7, 1984 Jul 13, PMID:6374187, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6374187>
- Datta, R K & Datta, B (1977), "Nobel Prize winners in medicine (1976).", Journal of the Indian Medical Association 68 (10): 216-8, 1977 May 16, PMID:333031, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/333031>
- "[The Nobel prize for Medicine in 1976 (DC Gajdusek)(BS Blumberg)]", Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde 120 (46): 1981, 1976, 1976 Nov 13, PMID:796735, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/796735>
- Salmi, A (1976), "[Nobel prize winners in physiology and medicine]", Duodecim; lääketieteellinen aikakauskirja 92 (23): 1314-6, 1976, PMID:1001226, <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1001226>
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
