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ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – )

ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – )

1935 –

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA · Dr. Harvey Alter wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine · Public domain

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1965 CE

#3666.4

A “new” antigen in leukemia sera.

BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011)
BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011)
ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – )
ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – ) VISNICH, S. & et al.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Blumberg, Alter, Visnich.) Discovery of Australia antigen, hepatitis B antigen, Aa, later called HBsAg. Blumberg received half of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Biolo…

1978 CE

#13540

Transmissible agent in non-A, non-B hepatitis.

ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – )
ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – )
PURCELL, Robert Harry (1935 – )
PURCELL, Robert Harry (1935 – ) HOLLAND, Paul & et al.

The first paper recording the discovery of what was, eleven years later in 1989, named the hepatitis C virus (see No. 12653). Harvey Alter and colleagues inoculated the serum/plasma of 4 patients with non-A/non-B hepa…