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Baruch Samuel Blumberg

1925 - 2011

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baruch Samuel Blumberg has received more than 201,094 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Baruch Samuel Blumberg is the 149th most popular physician (down from 111th in 2019), the 1,140th most popular biography from United States (down from 903rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Physician.

Baruch Samuel Blumberg is most famous for discovering the Hepatitis B virus.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 149 out of 502. Before him are Georgios Papanikolaou, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Heo Jun, Louis Ignarro, Baruj Benacerraf, and André Frédéric Cournand. After him are George H. Hitchings, John Langdon Down, Alan Hodgkin, Ludwig Guttmann, E. Donnall Thomas, and George Emil Palade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 67. Before him are Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Celia Cruz, Frei Otto, Dick Van Dyke, Claude Lanzmann, and Francisco Álvarez Martínez. After him are Hilda Gadea, Hal Holbrook, Oliver Smithies, József Bozsik, Bill Haley, and Robert Rauschenberg. Among people deceased in 2011, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 44. Before him are Daniel Bell, Amy Winehouse, Maria Schneider, Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Tomislav Ivić, and Baruj Benacerraf. After him are Madame Nhu, Alberto Granado, Cliff Robertson, Bubba Smith, Michael Cacoyannis, and Jorge Semprún.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 1,140 out of 18,182. Before him are Dred Scott (1795), Marcheline Bertrand (1950), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Donna Leon (1942), Sam Walton (1918), and Martha Washington (1731). After him are Jackie Robinson (1919), Arthur Ashe (1943), James Cagney (1899), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Sylvia Earle (1935), and Neil Diamond (1941).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Baruch Samuel Blumberg ranks 16. Before him are Harvey J. Alter (1935), Virginia Apgar (1909), Joseph Murray (1919), Robin Cook (1940), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), and Louis Ignarro (1941). After him are George H. Hitchings (1905), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Anthony Fauci (1940), and Patch Adams (1945).

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