Baruch Samuel "Barry" Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011) was an American doctor of Jewish descent.

He is best known for the research he did on the Hepatitis B virus. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases". He shared the prize with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.

Baruch Samuel Blumberg

He died on April 5, 2011 a short while after he gave the keynote speech at the International Lunar Research Park Exploratory Workshop held at NASA Ames Research Center.

Baruch Samuel Blumberg

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1925 births

2011 deaths

Alumni of the University of Oxford

American military personnel of World War II

American Nobel Prize winners

American physicians

Columbia University alumni

Deaths from myocardial infarction

Jewish American academics

Jewish American scientists

Jewish military people

Jewish Nobel Prize winners

Scientists from Brooklyn

American virologists

Educators from New York City

Baruch Samuel Blumberg