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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physiology or Medicine (216) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1976 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1920s (114) 1925 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Northeastern states (100) New York (67) New York City (56) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 2010s (99) 2011 (12) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Western states (63) California (53) Mountain View (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) B (24) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) B (80) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Judaism (160) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 52 (14) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations (70) Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners (69) Physicians (65) 33. Ethnic Origins 33. Ethnic Origins Asia (244) Middle East (197) Israel (197) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 39. Worked for Medical Organization 39. Worked for Medical Organization North America (25) United States (25) Middle Atlantic states (1) Pennsylvania (1) Philadelphia (1) Fox Chase Cancer Center (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Oxford (69) University of Oxford (69) Alumni (29) Short-term academic staff (36) North America (529) United States (521) Middle Atlantic states (178) Pennsylvania (56) Philadelphia (35) University of Pennsylvania (35) Long-term academic staff (14) Northeastern states (374) New York (216) New York City (168) Columbia University (96) Alumni (43) Short-term academic staff (38) Western states (262) California (253) Stanford (83) Stanford University (83) Short-term academic staff (35) 43. Affilliation with Secondary School 43. Affilliation with Secondary School North America (80) United States (78) Northeastern states (46) New York (38) New York City (35) Queens (8) Far Rockaway High School (3) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Croonian Lecture (32) G-H (389) G (254) Gairdner Foundation International Award (89) I-J (268) J (208) John Scott Medal (11) M-N (333) N (205) National Inventor Hall of Fame (33) complete name: Baruch Samuel Blumberg nobel prize: medicine award year: 1976 together with: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 was awarded jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Baruch family name: Blumberg occupation: physician occupation: university teacher occupation: anthropologist occupation: virologist field of work: virology work location: Balliol College, Oxford, United Kingdom description: Baruch Samuel 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. He was President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death. Blumberg received the Nobel Prize for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1976/summary/> date birth: 1925 date death: 2011 usual name: Baruch Blumberg
