Lifesaver was constantly searching
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 4:28PM 
Baruch Samuel Blumberg 28/7/1925 - 5/4/2011ARUCH Blumberg, who was awarded a Nobel prize for discovering the hepatitis B virus and went on to develop a preventive vaccine that has saved millions of lives, has died of an apparent heart attack while attending a NASA conference near San Francisco. He was 85.
Blumberg had spent the latter part of his career helping NASA inaugurate its formal search for extraterrestrial life and clues to the origin of life on Earth.
For Blumberg, who trained as a biochemist but became a leading scientist in virology, oncology and epidemiology, this new field was the next step in a long career of enviable breadth.
But he was best known for his work half a century ago on hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can cause cirrhosis, cancer and death. He was interested in figuring out why some people are more vulnerable to getting sick than others. That simple question led him to farflung villages in Africa, remote areas of Australia and the Arctic - and serendipitously to the discovery of hepatitis B in 1967.
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