He wrote a book on the Hepatitis B virus.
Baruch S. Blumberg won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976.
Baruch S Blumberg found the Hepatitis B virus, developed its diagnostic test, and vaccine.
Baruch S. Blumberg won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for his hepatitis B vaccine.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 was awarded jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
a vaccine for smallpox
Baruch S. Blumberg is co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), and the current president of the American Philosophical Society. He received Nobel prize for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases."
Hepatitis B Vaccine
He wrote a book on the Hepatitis B virus.
He won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for identifying the Hepatitis B virus, and later developing its diagnostic test and vaccine.
Only 9 people received Nobel prizes in 1976. According the the Nobel Prize web site, the Nobel prizes that year went to:The Nobel Prize in Physics Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry William N. Lipscomb "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"he Nobel Prize in Literature Saul Bellow "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work"The Nobel Peace Prize Betty Williams and Mairead CorriganThe Prize in Economic Sciences Milton Friedman "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy"
No, Democritus has not won a Nobel Prize as he lived in ancient Greece and the Nobel Prize was established much later in 1895.