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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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Dean
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Enthusiastic
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Fellows
Harvard
Interaction
Me
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Medical School
Minds
Missed
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Offered
Particularly
Pathology
Robert
School
Stimulating
Students
University
Young
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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Asthma
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Curiosity
Days
Deep
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Mechanism
Medical
Particularly
Phenomena
Student
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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French
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Lasting
Life
My Life
Primary
Secondary
Secondary Education
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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Biology
Concerning
Genetics
Made
May
Methodology
Molecular
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Our
Phenomena
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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Biological
Control
Detailed
Determine
Exert
Genes
Identification
Mechanism
Most
Phenomena
Processes
Proven
Study
Successful
Understanding
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The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
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Foreign
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Immune
Individuals
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Large Number
Molecules
Naturally
Number
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Previous
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Same
Species
Specifically
System
Very
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
~ Baruj Benacerraf
American
American Citizen
Army
Citizen
College
Drafted
Enjoyed
Greatly
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Medical School
Oriented
Other
Part
Program
School
Students
Studies
Training
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Baruj Benacerraf
Profession
Scientist
BirthDate
29 October, 1920
DeathDate
02 August, 2011
Country
Venezuela
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