When Baruch Samuel Blumberg was notified on October 14, 1976 that he was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, he made a humorous and low-key comment to the New York Times: "I'm especially pleased that someone from Philadelphia...

1925- American physician and researcher noted for his research on the spread of virus infections, especially hepatitis B. In 1963, while examining samples of different ethic groups and their response to disease, Blumberg found an antigen in the serum...

Baruch Samuel Blumberg (born July 28, 1925) is an American scientist and recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the Hepatitis...

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and medical scientist, shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology with another American physician, D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923- ), for discoveries concerning mechanisms involved in the origin and spread of infectious diseases. Blumberg's work made it possible...

Abraham Samuel Blumberg, a sociologist who angered former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover with his criticism of the agency, died Nov. 11 after a series of strokes. He was 75. It was a 1970 classroom discussion led by Blumberg that incurred Hoover's wrath....