Baruch Samuel Blumberg Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Baruch Samuel Blumberg also known as Barry Blumberg was a Jewish-American physician and geneticist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 together with American physician and medical researcher Daniel Carleton Gajdusek for their individual research work on infectious viral diseases. Blumberg’s work included identification of the virus that caused Hepatitis B, which often posed to be fatal and many times transferred through blood transfusions.

He showed that the virus had capability of causing liver cancer. Later he developed diagnostic tests of the disease and discovered an antigen in the blood sample of an aborigine of Australia, which eventually helped in developing an effective vaccine to counter the disease. Just after completing high school he served the US Navy during the Second World War. At one time he became a merchant seaman and also worked as a doctor on a ship.

He remained University Professor of Anthropology and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and also served the Balliol College, of the Oxford University as Master. Blumberg remained Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Ames Research Center in California. He also served as the President of American Philosophical Society.