When was Baruj Benacerraf born?
October 29, 1920
October 20, 1920
November 29, 1920
December 29, 1920
Answer
Baruj Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jean Dausset and George D. Snell. He was known for his work on the major histocompatibility complex, which controls the immune system's ability to distinguish between self and non-self.
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