Baruj Benacerraf shares the medicine prize for identifying inherited cell surface structures that govern immune reactions. His experiments helped explain why individuals respond differently to foreign tissues and antigens, establishing the importance of major histocompatibility genes.
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Baruj Benacerraf
Nobel Prize history for Baruj Benacerraf based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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