LC control no. | n 82144388 |
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Personal name heading | Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011 |
Biography/History note | M.D., Ph. D.; chief, Geographic Medicine and Genetics Section, Epidemiology and Biometry Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda, Md. |
Found in | Conference on Genetic Polymorphisms and Geographic Variations in Disease, National Institute of Health, 1960. Proceedings, 1961, c1962. Hepatitis B, c1984: CIP t.p. (Baruch S. Blumberg) data sheet (b. 1925) Hepatitis B, 2002: CIP galley (b. 07-28-9125) NLM files, 4/7/86 (hdg.: Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-) New York times WWW site, Apr. 7, 2011 (in obituary published Apr. 6: Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg; b. Baruch Samuel Blumberg, July 28, 1925, New York; d. Tuesday [Apr. 5, 2011], Moffett Field, Calif., aged 85; Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and medical anthropologist who discovered the hepatitis B virus, showed that it could cause liver cancer, and then helped develop a powerful vaccine to fight it, saving millions of lives) |