Baruj benacerraf autobiography template
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Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920, in Caracas, Venezuela. Benacerraf enrolled in the undergraduate studies at Columbia University, obtaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1942. Following Columbia, he enrolled in the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. A year later, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. For a year in 1945, Benacerraf interned at Queens General Hospital in New York. In 1946, he was commissioned First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and sent to Germany; he was discharged in 1947.
After the war, he was granted a Fellowship at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1950 to 1956, Benacerraf moved with his family to Paris to take a position in Bernard Halpern's laboratory at the Broussais Hospital. In 1956, he returned to the United States as Assistant Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine. bygd 1961, Benacerraf had advanced to Professor of Patholog
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Baruj Benacerraf remembered as visionary immunologist and Dana-Farber leader
As a young man, Baruj Benacerraf was encouraged to follow his father into the family textile business. He left his native Caracas, Venezuela, for the United States and Philadelphia's Textile Engineering School in 1939, but quit after just a few weeks, moved much more by the mysteries of science than that of machines, yarns, and patterns.
He instead chose a career in medical research, and textile's loss was Dana-Farber's — and all of medicine's — gain.
Benacerraf became one of the world's leading immunologists, earning the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1980 for his breakthrough genetic findings. At Dana-Farber, however, this intellectual giant — who passed away from pneumonia at his Jamaica Plain home this morning at age 90 — will be remembered not only as a gifted researcher but also as an outstanding leader and mentor who guided Dana-Farber through a period of tremendous growth as its president from 19
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Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, a Venezuelan-born immunologist, died on 2 August 2011 of pneumonia, at his home in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston at 90 years of age. He was the son of a textile merchant who hoped that his son would carry on the family business, and he spent most of his childhood in Paris. Dr. Benacerraf was troubled by asthma as a child, and his interest in immunology was probably influenced by his medical problem.
His family left Paris at the start of World War II and settled in New York City. He had developed a love of science in high school and received a bachelor's degree in biology in 1942 from Columbia University.
Instead of joining the family business, Dr. Benacerraf studied medicine. After being rejected by a number of medical schools, he was accepted at the Medical College of Virginia (now part of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond). In 1943, he became an American citizen and married Annette Dreyfus, a French student