Baruj Benacerraf, who has died aged 90, won the Nobel prize for his contribution to identifying the gene groups, called major histocompatibility complexes, that determine a person's susceptibility to ...

A Venezuelan-born, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist died Monday from complications of pneumonia, his family said. He was 90. A physician-scientist, Baruj Benacerraf gained attention after he ...

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Baruj Benacerraf, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1980 for medicine for breakthroughs in immunology, and later headed Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, died Aug. 2 at 90. Benacerraf and other ...

BOSTON – Baruj Benacerraf, a Venezuela-born immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died Tuesday, his family announced. He was 90. He died of pneumonia at his Boston ...

Baruj Benacerraf, the geneticist and immunologist who earned the 1980 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the gene that governs the immune system’s reaction to foreign bodies, died on August 2, 2011 of ...

Baruj Benacerraf, 90, a Venezuelan-born immunologist who became a leading scientist and academic administrator and won a Nobel Prize for shedding new light on how the human body fends off disease, ...

Leslie Brent writes: Baruj Benacerraf (obituary, 19 September) shared the 1980 Nobel prize with George Snell and Jean Dausset. Snell was the first to describe the histocompatibility antigens – the ...

Baruj Benacerraf, who died on August 2 aged 90, shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research into the reasons why some people are better at defending themselves against infection than ...

Baruj Benacerraf, who died on 9 August aged 90, was a Venezuelan immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Benacerraf gained attention after he discovered that genetic ...