Society Hill in Philadelphia in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Baruch S. Blumberg

(1925-2011)

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 27, 2019

1. Baruch S. Blumberg Marker

Inscription. Nobel laureate who identified the hepatitis B virus and developed its diagnostic test and vaccine, which he shared to promote its use. Affiliated with Fox Chase Cancer Center, NASA Astrobiology Inst., and pres. of American Philosophical Society. Blumberg lived here.

Erected 2016 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Science & Medicine. In addition, it is included in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1925.

Location. 39° 56.658′ N, 75° 8.959′ W. Marker is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County. It is in Society Hill. Marker is on Lawrence Court south of Cypress Street, on the left when traveling south. Marker is located on the sidewalk, beside the subject house. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 323 South Lawrence Court, Philadelphia PA 19106, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Thomas Neval (within shouting distance of this marker); Physick House (within shouting distance of this marker); Philip Syng Physick (within shouting distance of this marker); Marc Blitzstein (within shouting distance of this marker); Rev. George Duffield, D.D.

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(about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Old Pine Street (about 300 feet away); Nature defined this sculpted stance of Rev. George Duffield… (about 300 feet away); Here in this historic graveyard… (about 300 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Philadelphia.

Also see . . . Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician. 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 for Physiology or Medicine in 1976 with D. Carleton Gajdusek for their work on the origins and spread of infectious viral diseases. Blumberg’s book on his Nobel Prize-winning work, Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus, was published in 2002. (Submitted on June 30, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Baruch S. Blumberg Marker<br>(<i>view looking north along Lawrence Court to Cypress Street</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, June 27, 2019

2. Baruch S. Blumberg Marker
(view looking north along Lawrence Court to Cypress Street)

Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2023. It was originally submitted on June 29, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 228 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 30, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.