Baruch Blumberg Dies

Apr 07, 2011

Baruch Blumberg, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died, Agence France Presse reports. He was 85. Blumberg won the Nobel for his work to help identify the hepatitis B virus.

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