rheumatoid arthritis. Awards He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. Other notable awards include: Rous-Whipple Award of the American Association of Pathologists 1985 National Medal of Science 1990 Gold-Headed Cane Award of the American Association for Investigative Pathology 1996 Charles A. Dana Award for pioneering achievements in Health and Education 1996 Honorary degrees received Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University 1981 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, New York University 1981 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Yeshiva University 1982 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Columbia University 1985 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Adelphi University 1988 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Weizmann Institute of Sciences 1989 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Gustav Adolphus University 1992 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Harvard University 1992 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Université de Bordeaux 1993 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Medicine, University of Vienna 1995 Later years and death His autobiography was published in 1998. Benacerraf died on August 2, 2011, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts of pneumonia. His wife, Annette, predeceased him by two months. Their daughter, Beryl, who died in late 2022, was a Harvard Medical School graduate who taught at Harvard and was a director at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, as well as the Massachusetts General Hospital. See also List of Jewish Nobel laureates List of Venezuelans References External links 1920 births 2011 deaths Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine American Nobel laureates French Nobel laureates Mizrahi Jews Jewish physicians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences American people of Moroccan-Jewish descent Columbia University School of General Studies alumni Harvard Medical School faculty Columbia Medical School faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Lycée Français de New York alumni 20th-century Moroccan Jews National Medal of Science laureates Jewish American scientists Hispanic and Latino American scientists People from Caracas Scientists from Paris Venezuelan emigrants to the United States Venezuelan immunologists Venezuelan Jews Venezuelan Nobel laureates Venezuelan people of Moroccan-Jewish descent Deaths from pneumonia in Massachusetts Members of the National Academy of Medicine