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Baruj Benacerraf
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Person

Baruj Benacerraf

1920 – 2011 · aged 91

Venezuelan-American immunologist

Born
29 Oct 1920 · Caracas
Died
2 Aug 2011 · Boston
Part ofVenezuela1783 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 105 years
  1. 29 Oct 1920BornBorn in Caracas
  2. 1980AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  3. 1982AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II
  4. 1985AwardHonorary doctorate from Columbia University
  5. 1990AwardNational Medal of Science
  6. 1991AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Bordeaux-II
  7. 1992AwardHonorary doctor of Harvard University
  8. 1995AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Vienna
  9. 2 Aug 2011DiedDied in Boston

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1920 – 2011).

  1. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  2. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  3. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  4. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  5. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  6. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  7. 1938Munich Agreement
  8. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  9. 1939 – 1945World War II
  10. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  11. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  12. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  13. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  14. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  15. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  16. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  17. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  19. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  20. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  21. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  22. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  23. 1956Suez Crisis
  24. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  26. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  28. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  30. 1968Prague Spring
  31. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  32. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  33. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  34. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  36. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  37. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  38. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  39. 1985Schengen Agreement
  40. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

Biography

Baruj Benacerraf Lasry (October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.

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