Baruj Benacerraf
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Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist who made important contributions to understanding how the immune system works. His research helped explain how the body recognizes and fights disease, which has had significant impacts on medicine and our understanding of immunology.
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- Histocompatibility-Linked Immune Response Genes
· 1972 · cited 853x
- Systematic approach to sonographic evaluation of the pelvis in women with suspected endometriosis, including terms, definitions and measurements: a consensus opinion from the International Deep Endometriosis Analysis (IDEA) group
· 2016 · cited 752x
- Terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of myometrium and uterine masses: a consensus opinion from the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) group
· 2015 · cited 659x
- What Numbers Could not Be
· 1965 · cited 569x
- Mathematical Truth
· 1973 · cited 550x
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Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (/bəˈrʊk ˌbɛnəseɪˈrɑːf/; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan and 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 protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.
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1920 births2011 deaths20th-century Jewish medical doctors20th-century Venezuelan medical doctorsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Algerian-Jewish descentAmerican people of Moroccan-Jewish descentColumbia Medical School facultyColumbia University School of General Studies alumniDeaths from pneumonia in MassachusettsFellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences