Baruch Samuel Blumberg wins the Nobel in Medicine. Born July 28, 1925.
He attended Far Rockaway High School in the 1940s, the school that also produced fellow (Jewish) Nobel laureates Burton Richter and Richard Feynman.
Britannica –
“American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes antibody response against hepatitis B led to the development by other researchers of a successful vaccine against the disease. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 with D. Carleton Gajdusek for their work on the origins and spread of infectious viral diseases.
In May 1999 Blumberg was appointed director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute. He held several different positions while at NASA, where he remained until 2004. The following year he was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/70555/Baruch–S–Blumberg (accessed May 11, 2009)