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