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Baruch Blumberg (characters)

This character appears in 2 books.


  1. The Emperor of All Maladies

    A Biography of Cancer

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Baruch Blumberg: A biologist who discovered the hepatitis B virus, which proved to be a cause of liver cancer. This was one of the viral carcinogens that the NCI had fruitlessly searched for. He is the co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), and the President of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.


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