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Class of 1940, On the Internet: Nobel Prize Winner Baruj BenacerrafFROM: Britannica .com(b. Oct. 29, 1920, Caracas, Venez.), Venezuelan-born American immunologist whose contributions to an understanding of the mechanisms and genetic basis of the immunologic response and especially of its role in certain diseases known as the autoimmune diseases brought him a share (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. From the age of five until the outbreak of World War II Benacerraf lived in Paris. In 1940 he entered Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1942. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943, while a student at the Medical College of Virginia. After receiving his M.D. in 1945 and interning at Queens General Hospital in New York City, he served in the U.S. Army in 1946-48. After a year of research at Columbia and six years at the Hôpital Broussais in Paris, he joined the faculty of New York University School of Medicine in 1956, advancing to professor of pathology in 1960. In 1968-70 he was chief of the immunologic laboratory of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. From 1970 he held the Fabyan chair of comparative pathology at Harvard. SOURCE: http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/62_24.html |
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