Baruj Benacerraf is a Venezuelan-born immunologist whose major contribution to modern immunology was the discovery of the immune-response gene (Ir) , which triggers the body's war on disease. For his work linking Ir genes to the major...

Baruj Benacerraf was born in Caracas, Venezuela; his father was a wealthy textile merchant. Benacerraf grew up in France, then attended Columbia University in New York where he got his degree in 1942. He married and became a naturalized United States...

Baruj Benacerraf's experience with asthma as a child sparked his interest in the body's immune reactions. He researched immunological hypersensitivity with American chemist, Elvin Kabat at the College of Physician's and Surgeons at Columbia University...

1920- Venezuelan-born American immunologist who received the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Jean Dausset and George Snell, for research involving immune response genes and major histocompatibility complex (MHC). While working...

Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October, 1920) is a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for...

Baruj and Annette Benacerraf were enjoying a sun-drenched August day on the terrace of their summer home in Falmouth when their cordless outdoor phone rang. The 67-year old Nobel laureate, chairman of the pathology department at Harvard Medical School and president of the Dana...