Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , 1923-, American virologist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., M.D. Harvard, 1945. He worked in the United States, Iran, and Australia studying infectious diseases, particularly kuru, a viral brain disease spread among the Fore people of New Guinea by cannibalism. In 1958 he joined the National Institutes of Health, where he conducted research until his retirement in 1997. In 1976, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruch S. Blumberg .
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