商品簡介
The memoir of immunologist and 1980 Nobel prize winner Benacerraf. Born in 1920 to a family of Jewish textile importers in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved to Paris at the age of five. He discusses his years studying at the LycTe Janson and the period of the Nazi invasion of France which led the family to flee back to the Americas where he found himself studying medicine in the United States. His years at Harvard, NYU, and the National Institute of Health are examined, as is his time as the chief executive officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
Baruj Benacerraf?(1920 - 2011) was 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 protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." In 1968, he became?chief of the immunology laboratory at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1970 to 1991 he served as both professor of comparative pathology and chairman of the pathology department at Harvard University Medical School. He also was president (1980–91) of the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute (now the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) in Boston. Benacerraf was elected to the?National Academy of Sciences?(1973) and was awarded the National Medal of Science (1990).
