Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician and geneticist who lived from 1925 to 2011. He shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and the prize recognized new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases. His work on the hepatitis B virus was carried out as an investigator at the National Institutes of Health and later at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus and went on to develop both a diagnostic test for it and a vaccine against it. From 2005 until his death he served as president of the American Philosophical Society.
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July 28, 1925
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April 5, 2011
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American physician, geneticist
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hepatitis B virus
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