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Baruj Benacerraf
Full Name of the recipient | Baruj Benacerraf |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1980 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Jean Dausset (33.3%) George D. Snell (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA |
Place of Birth | Caracas, Venezuela VEN |
Date of Birth | 29 October 1920 |
Age at the time of Award | 59 years |
Place of Death | Boston, MA, United States USA |
Date of Death | 2 August 2011 |