Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which... Wikipedia
Born: September 9, 1923, Yonkers, NY
Died: December 12, 2008 (age 85 years), Tromsø Municipality, Norway
Books: Journal of a Trip to the Shepherd, Banks, and Torres Islands and to Espiritu Santo and Efate in the New Hebrides, November 15, 1963, to December 25, 1963, Melanesian Journal: Expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, 23 January 1965 to 7 April 1965, Stumbling Along the Tortuous Road to Unanticipated Nobility: Melanesian, Indonesian, and Malaysian Expedition ..., and more
Awards: SPR E. Mead Johnson Award (1963) and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1976)
Parents: Karol Gajdusek and Ottilia Dobroczki.
Known for: Early discovery of prion disease
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