Baruch S. Blumberg

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976

“for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”

Baruch S. Blumberg was an American physician and medical researcher. He discovered the hepatitis B virus and mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 and was affiliated with The Institute for Cancer Research.