Baruj Benacerraf
(1920- ), Venezuela. Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology, 1980 Benacerraf gained the Nobel Prize, along with his colleagues Dausset and Snell "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions. They have been responsible for turning what at first appeared as an esoteric area of basic research on inbred mice into a major biological system of the greatest significance for the understanding of cell recognition, immune responses and graft rejection."