Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known to his friends as Barry, was born July 28, 1925, in New York City. He enrolled at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., ...

Baruch S. Blumberg, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered the hepatitis B vaccine and subsequently developed a preventative vaccine that saved millions of lives, died April 5. He was 85.

SHANGHAI, April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of oncol ...

Professor Baruch Blumberg, who died on April 5 aged 85, shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine with Carleton Gajdusek for his discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis B, a frequently fatal ...

Amazingly, three alumni of Far Rockaway High School in Queens won Nobel Prizes over the course of 11 years: Richard Feynman in physics in 1965; Burton Richter, also in physics, in 1976; and Baruch ...

T he World Health Organization (WHO) observes July 28 as World Hepatitis Day, to mark the birthday of Dr Baruch Samuel Blumberg, who discovered the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) in 1965. According to a ...

World Hepatitis Day 2024: History . In honour of Dr. Baruch Samuel Blumberg, the American doctor who identified hepatitis B in the 1960s, this day was changed from May 19 to July 28 in 2010.

Dr. Blumberg’s work led to the discovery of the hepatitis B virus in 1967, ... Baruch Blumberg, Who Discovered and Tackled Hepatitis B, Dies at 85. H. ROGER SEGELKEN.

Professor Baruch Blumberg, who died on April 5 aged 85, shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine with Carleton Gajdusek for his discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis B, a frequently fatal ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) observes July 28 as World Hepatitis Day, to mark the birthday of Dr Baruch Samuel Blumberg, who discovered the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) in 1965.