Australia antigen (a hepatitis-associated antigen). Purification and physical properties.

Purification of the Australia antigen and investigation of its physical properties. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Millman, Loeb, Bayer, Blumberg.)

Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." See also Nos. 3666.4, 6840, 6841.