Baruj Benacerraf
1920 - 2011
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Biography
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.
Famous Quotes (5)
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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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Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
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Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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A great discovery does not become great until the point at which it becomes a target for the nitpickers.