"Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
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About Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1920 to Sephardic Jewish parents of North African descent. Benacerraf studied at Columbia University and later pursued his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia. His groundbreaking research revolutionized the understanding of the human immune system and autoimmune diseases, leaving a lasting impact on the field of immunology.
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