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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Paul Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune systems distinction between self and non...
Benacerraf is therefore precluded from using Gödel's first theorem, and turns instead to its corollary, Gödel's second theorem, that in any formal system rich enough for elementary arithmetic, the consistency of that system cannot be proved-in-that-system, unless the system is in fact inconsistent.
Benacerraf's mechanism, which avoids contradiction only by never specifying what sort of machine a human being is alleged to be, is, from a common sense point of view, a position too empty to be worth holding.
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 Baruj Benacerraf Summary
Baruj Benacerraf is a Venezuelan-born immunologist whose major contribution to modern immunology was the discovery of the immune-response gene (Ir), which triggers the body's war on disease.
Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920, in Caracas, Venezuela, to Henriette Lasry and Abraham Benacerraf.
Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October, 1920) is a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self".
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  Baruj Benacerraf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. Baruj Benacerraf (born 29 October 1920) is a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self".
Born in Caracas, his parents were Sephardic Jews from Morocco.
Benacerraf moved to Paris from Venezuela with his family in 1925.
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 Paul Benacerraf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Benacerraf is an American philosopher of mathematics who has been teaching at Princeton University for several decades.
His brother is the Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Baruj Benacerraf.
Benacerraf is perhaps best known for his paper What Numbers Could Not Be and for his highly successful anthology on the philosophy of mathematics, co-edited with Hilary Putnam.
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 Barnard College: Alumna in Action
Benacerraf, a clinical professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, was the first to use a genetic sonogram to identify the chromosomal abnormalities of Down syndrome.
Benacerraf, who is president of Diagnostic Ultrasound Associates in Boston and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, acknowledges that having dyslexia makes her work more difficult.
While at Barnard, her mother met her future husband, Baruj Benacerraf, who went on to become a Nobel laureate and served as president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Center Institute.
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 Baruj Benacerraf
Baruj Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920, in Caracas, Venezuela.
From 1950 to 1956, Benacerraf moved with his family to Paris to take a position in Bernard Halpern's laboratory at the Broussais Hospital.
Baruj Benacerraf showed that genetic factors intimately related to the genes that determine an individual's unique constitution of H antigens actually regulate the interaction among the various cells belonging to the immunological system and are thereby important to the strength of an immunological reaction.
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 Benacerraf Donates Library to Dana-Farber Cancer Center Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Benacerraf, former chair of the Medical School's Department of Pathology as well as the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology Emeritus and president of Dana-Farber emeritus, considers his students to be his greatest legacy, so it is fitting that he has found a way to continue teaching, said former student and colleague Steven Burakoff.
Benacerraf, of Spanish-Jewish ancestry, was born in Venezuela.
As president, Benacerraf's goal was to foster the development of therapeutic approaches to cure cancer based on discoveries in the laboratory.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/04.23/BenacerrafDonat.html   (781 words)

  
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When the twenty-year-old Baruj Benacerraf boarded the Queen Mary for America in 1939, none of his fellow passengers suspected they were in the company of a future Nobel Prize winner.
Today Baruj is President Emeritus of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston where he has served as top administrator for the past sixteen years.
Benacerraf and his contributions to the field of immunology remain unparalleled.
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 Amazon.ca: From Caracas To Stockholm: Books: Baruj Benacerraf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Benacerraf's childhood was spent primarily in Paris, until fear of war with Nazi Germany compelled his family to flee to Venezuela in 1939.
Benacerraf, a 1980 Nobel laureate for his work in immunology, has lived in Venezuela, France, and the U.S. His autobiography is the fascinating account of a perceptive, forceful individual who can admit making mistakes and has no qualms about stating his beliefs.
Born into wealth, Benacerraf was early exposed to the arts and humanities and later had a stint as a banker.
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 Benacerraf, Baruj - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
BENACERRAF, BARUJ [Benacerraf, Baruj], 1920-, American immunologist, b.
His research led to the discovery of genetic structures that regulate immunological responses, for which he shared (with George Snell and Jean Dausset) the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Benacerraf, Baruj BENACERRAF, BARUJ [Benacerraf, Baruj], 1920-, American immunologist, b.
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 AllRefer.com - Baruj Benacerraf Information
In rare cases, however, a foreign protein will have no peptides with a suitable motif for binding to any of the MHC molecules encoded by an individual.
Life Benacerraf was born in Caracas, but his family moved to New York in 1940, and Benacerraf was educated at Columbia University, New York, and the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond.
He became a naturalized US citizen in 1943, and during World War II served with the US Army Medical Corps in Europe.
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 Physiology or Medicine 1980 - Press Release
Jean Dausset demonstrated the existence of H antigens in man and elucidated the genetic factors regulating their formation.
He has shown in elegant studies that the guinea pig's ability to mobilize an immune response against a certain antigen is determined by genetic factors.
The area of research opened up by Benacerraf now offers the possibility of analyzing the background of the varying ability of different individuals to mobilize an immune response to infections.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Benacerraf Considered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Published On By JEFFREY E. Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology at the Medical School, is one of three candidates being considered by the Reagan administration for the directorship of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Washington Post reported yesterday.
Benacerraf shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1980 for his work on genetically determined cellular mechanisms for communication between body cells.
Benacerraf has been chairman of the Department of Pathology since 1970.
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 From Caracas to Stockholm by Baruj Benacerraf : Booksamillion.com (1573922277, Hardcover)
From Caracas to Stockholm by Baruj Benacerraf : Booksamillion.com (1573922277, Hardcover)
How did a child born into a Spanish-speaking Jewish family in Venezuela overcome a learning disability and the interruption of his education at the outset of World War II to become a medical researcher.
In a delightful and often humorous memoir, Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, M.D., recounts the colorful history of his family and how they shaped his values and goals.
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 DFCI - OR - About the Reading Room
The Benacerraf Reading Room is dedicated to Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, M.D., Nobel Laureate and Dana-Farber president emeritus.
Benacerraf won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of the genetic basis for the human immune response.
The room houses his scientific and personal papers, his Nobel Prize memorabilia, and his many other honors and awards.
researchoffice.dfci.harvard.edu /library/about_room.asp   (90 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Baruj Benacerraf (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Baruj Benacerraf (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Baruj Benacerraf[bA´rOOkh benas´uruf] Pronunciation Key, 1920–;, American immunologist, b.
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Baruj Benacerraf shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of the genetic basis of autoimmune diseases.
Benacerraf continues his work at Boston's Dana-Farber Institute.
Courtesy Baruj Benacerraf, M.D. Back to Voices from the Present
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 Baruj Benacerraf Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Baruj Benacerraf Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Beruj Benacerraf donates his share of the Nobel prize money
Baruj Benacerref Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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