The Saga of Baruj Benacerraf
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BIOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW
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Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan 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." His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.
CAREER & LEGACY
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Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
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Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
