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Baruj Benacerraf

Venezuelan-American immunologist · Venezuela · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1920 to 2011 · aged 90

Baruj Benacerraf Lasry was a Venezuelan and 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."

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2011Died2 August 20111995Honorary Doctor of the University of ViennaAward1992Honorary Doctor of Harvard UniversityAward1991Honorary Doctorate from University of Bordeaux-IIAward1990National Medal of ScienceAward1985Honorary Doctorate from Columbia UniversityAward1982Honorary Doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille IIAward1980Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward1920Born29 October 1920

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Honorary Doctor of the University of Vienna1995
Honorary Doctor of Harvard University1992
Honorary Doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II1991
National Medal of Science1990
Honorary Doctorate from Columbia University1985
Honorary Doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II1982
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1980
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.

Country
Venezuela
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1920 to 2011 · aged 90