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Baruch Samuel Blumberg

1925 - 2011

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death. Blumberg and Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering "new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus, and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Baruch Samuel Blumberg is the 123rd most popular physician (up from 196th in 2019), the 934th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,611th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Physician.

Baruch Samuel Blumberg is most famous for discovering the Hepatitis B virus.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 123 out of 726. Before him are Alexandre Yersin, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, John Eccles, Hotepsekhemwy, Alexander Bogdanov, and Johannes Peter Müller. After him are Santorio Santorio, Aribert Heim, Hans Selye, Amenmesse, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Robin Warren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 54. Before him are Dick Van Dyke, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, William F. Buckley Jr., George Kennedy, Robert Altman, and Leo Esaki. After him are Maya Plisetskaya, Bülent Ecevit, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Mauriat, Milton Obote, and Juan Alberto Schiaffino. Among people deceased in 2011, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 34. Before him are Ralph M. Steinman, Dennis Ritchie, Gary Moore, Sidney Lumet, Maria Schneider, and Necmettin Erbakan. After him are Manfred Gerlach, Christa Wolf, Jane Russell, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Willard Boyle, and Baruj Benacerraf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 934 out of 20,380. Before him are Josephine Cochrane (1839), Buddy Holly (1936), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Nat King Cole (1919), George Clinton (1941), and Robert Altman (1925). After him are Philip Glass (1937), Laura Branigan (1952), Jane Addams (1860), William Hurt (1950), Walter Hill (1942), and Vera Rubin (1928).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 12. Before him are Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), George Minot (1885), Michael DeBakey (1908), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), and Stanley Cohen (1922). After him are William T. G. Morton (1819), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), Drew Weissman (1959), George Whipple (1878), Francis Peyton Rous (1879), and Dickinson W. Richards (1895).

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