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Nobel winner Blumberg dies

PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus, died Tuesday. He was 85.

Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize with D. Carleton Gajdusek for their discoveries concerning infectious diseases.

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