Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Born
September 9th, 1923
102 years ago
Died
2008
17 years ago — 85 years old
Category
Scientists & Innovators
Country
United States
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Contributions to the understanding of prion diseases through research on kuru and its transmission among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea were significant. Pioneered studies on the pathology and epidemiology of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Worked at the National Institutes of Health and found links between infectious agents and neurodegenerative disorders. Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for discoveries related to kuru.
Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976
Conducted groundbreaking research on kuru
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