Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Baruch Samuel Blumberg

American doctor

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1925

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 05-Apr-2011

Profession: physician, inventor, university teacher, biochemist, geneticist, anthropologist, virologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.
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.