Baruj Benacerraf
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1920 – 2011
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Who was Baruj Benacerraf?
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born 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.
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- Born
- Oct 29, 1920
Caracas - Also known as
- Dr. Baruj Benacerraf
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Annette Benacerraf
(1943 - 2011/06/03)
- Annette Benacerraf
- Religion
- Sephardic Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Venezuelan people
- Venezuelan American
- Moroccan Jews
- Venezuelan Jews
- Nationality
- Venezuela
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- VCU Medical Center
- Columbia University School of General Studies
- Employment
- Harvard Medical School
- Lived in
- Caracas
- Paris
- Died
- Aug 2, 2011
Jamaica Plain
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on July 23, 2013
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