Baruj Benacerraf
1920
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2011
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Country of citizenship: Venezuela, United States
Languages spoken, written or signed: English
Educated at: Columbia University, Columbia University School of General Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Occupation: physiologist, immunologist, biologist, physician, university teacher
Award received: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, National Medal of Science, honorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctor of the University of Vienna, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Baruj Benacerraf (; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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