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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 ...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 21, 2009 · Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of transmissible dementias, died on 12 December 2008 in a hotel in Tromsø, Norway.
- Jaap Goudsmit
- 2009
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"
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of transmissible dementias, died on 12 December 2008 in a hotel in Tromsø, Norway.
- Jaap Goudsmit
- 2009
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.
D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D., was co-winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize for his work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious. He connected the spread of kuru to the practice of funerary cannibalism by the South Fore people.
