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by Baruch S. Blumberg, 244 pp, with illus, paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-691-11623-7, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002.

JAMA. 2004;292:110.

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This small paperback outlines the career of a curious scientist. Excellent mentors and a highly prepared alert mind carried Baruch Blumberg from the illustrious Far Rockaway High School in Brooklyn to a degree in physics from Union College in upstate New York and a short Navy career. Blumberg had decided to be a scientist, but his college advisor suggested that he was not cut out for a career in physics. Taking that advice, he shifted to medical school at Columbia University, followed by 4 years of clinical training and then enrollment as a doctoral student in biochemistry at Oxford University, where Hans Krebs chaired the department.

During clinical training and at Oxford, the challenge of just why people respond differently to disease became Blumberg's topic of research. His approach was to study different proteins in the blood in various populations and correlate the proteins with diseases. He postulated that highly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital
Hines, Ill

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