Gajdusek, D. Carleton 1923-2008
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- His Acute infectious hemorrhagic fevers and related diseases in the USSR, 1953
- New York times WWW site, Dec. 16, 2008(in obituary published Dec. 15: D. Carleton Gajdusek; b. Sept. 9, 1923; found dead Friday morning [Dec. 12, 2008], Tromso [i.e. Tromsø], Norway, aged 85; virologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the mysterious epidemics now known as prion diseases)
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( 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 agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'. In 1996, Gajdusek was charged with child molestation and, after being convicted, spent 12 months in prison before entering a self-imposed exile in Europe, where he died a decade later. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland and at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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