Blumberg, Dr. Baruch b. July 28, 1925 d. April 5, 2011 Nobel Prize-Winning Physician. He was honored in 1976 for his discovery of the virus which causes Hepatitis B. The child of an attorney, he attended a local Yeshiva prior to graduating from Far Rocakway High School. Blumberg joined the US Navy in 1943, served as a deck officer aboard landing craft, and in 1945 earned a degree in physics from Union College of Schenectady, New York; maintaining his interest in the sea after leaving the Navy in 1946 he worked as a merchant seaman and in later...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Antietam Meadows Farms Cemetery , Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, USA
b. July 28, 1925 d. April 5, 2011