"While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented."
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.