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Dates:
1938-2013
Abstract:
Baruch S. Blumberg was a biomedical researcher at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia, PA, during the second half of the 20th century. His research into Australia Antigen and the Hepatitis B Virus led to a vaccine for the virus and a share of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Blumberg also served as chief of the Geographic Medicine and Genetics Section at the NIH (1957-1964), Master of Balliol College (1989-1994), the first Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (1999-2002), and President of the American Philosophical Society (2005-2011).
Call #:
Mss.Ms.Coll.144
Extent:
458 Linear feet
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AIDS (Disease) | American Philosophical Society | Balliol College (University of Oxford) | Bedbugs | Blood Transfusion | Blood banks | Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011 | Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) | Bucharest (Romania) | Cancer -- Research | Cebu City (Philippines) | Down syndrome | Economidou, Ioanna | Exobiology | Fox Chase Cancer Center. American Oncologic Hospital (AOH). Institute for Cancer Research (ICR) | Germany (East) | HIV (Viruses) | Hanford Site (Wash.) | Hepatitis. | Hepatoma | Japan -- Description and travel. | Lechat, M. F. (Michel F.), 1927-2014 -- Correspondence | Leprosy. | Leukemia. | Library of Congress | Liver Cancer | Mali | Marshall Islands | Montagnais Indians | Mosquitoes. | NASA Astrobiology Institute | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Nobel Prizes. | North Pole. | Philippines -- Description and travel. | Phyllanthus Amaris | Prehn, Liisa Melartin -- Correspondence | Rangeley (Me.) | Rheumatism | Rongelap Atoll (Marshall Islands) | Science Philosophy | Senegal | Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.) | Trinidad | United States. National Institutes of Health | University of Pennsylvania | Vanuatu | World Health Organization, United Nations