"As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms."
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is known for work on the genetic control of immune responses and major histocompatibility complex-related research.