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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ d ə ʃ ɛ k / GHY-də-shek; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious ...
Dec 20, 2008 · D Carleton Gajdusek: DR DANIEL Carleton Gajdusek, the brilliant yet tragically flawed US paediatrician, virologist and anthropologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 was awarded jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
Dec 15, 2008 · D. Carleton Gajdusek, a virologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the mysterious epidemics now known as prion diseases, died last week in Tromso, Norway.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek received the award physiology or medicine for his identification of a peculiar disease related to cannibalism, potentially saving an entire New Guinea tribe. Gajdusek was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1923 and learnt natural science from his aunt, an entomologist.
D. Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher, corecipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on the causal agents of various degenerative neurological disorders. Gajdusek graduated from the University of Rochester.
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Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. D. Carleton Gajdusek. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976. Born: 9 September 1923, Yonkers, NY, USA. Died: 12 December 2008, Tromsø, Norway. Affiliation at the time of the award: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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