Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician and geneticist, born in Brooklyn in 1925. He took his medical degree at Columbia University and a doctorate in biochemistry at Balliol College, Oxford, and later became the first American to be master of Balliol. In the 1950s and 1960s he travelled the world collecting blood samples to study genetic variation in disease susceptibility, and in 1964 his work on hepatitis led him to identify the hepatitis B virus. He then developed a diagnostic test and a vaccine. He shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and was president of the American Philosophical Society.
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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925
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was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient
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He first attended the Orthodox Yeshivah of Flatbush for elementary school
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co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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was an American physician, geneticist
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was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death
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He then moved to the University of Oxford and began graduate work in biochemistry
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Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus, and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine.
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