{"title":"Baruch S. Blumberg’s centennial—a Nobel laureate cutting through scientific disciplines","authors":"Istvan Hargittai","doi":"10.1007/s11224-025-02461-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Baruch S. Blumberg (1925˗2011), MD, PhD, started out in physics then moved to chemistry, finally, became a physician and research scientist. At an early stage, he worked with polysaccharides and returned to them at a later stage of his career. He received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus and the invention of the vaccine to protect against it. He concluded his career as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":780,"journal":{"name":"Structural Chemistry","volume":"36 4","pages":"1527 - 1530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Structural Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11224-025-02461-2","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Baruch S. Blumberg (1925˗2011), MD, PhD, started out in physics then moved to chemistry, finally, became a physician and research scientist. At an early stage, he worked with polysaccharides and returned to them at a later stage of his career. He received the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus and the invention of the vaccine to protect against it. He concluded his career as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
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Structural Chemistry is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research papers that cover the condensed and gaseous states of matter and involve numerous techniques for the determination of structure and energetics, their results, and the conclusions derived from these studies. The journal overcomes the unnatural separation in the current literature among the areas of structure determination, energetics, and applications, as well as builds a bridge to other chemical disciplines. Ist comprehensive coverage encompasses broad discussion of results, observation of relationships among various properties, and the description and application of structure and energy information in all domains of chemistry.
We welcome the broadest range of accounts of research in structural chemistry involving the discussion of methodologies and structures,experimental, theoretical, and computational, and their combinations. We encourage discussions of structural information collected for their chemicaland biological significance.