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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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 . Author not available, GAJDUSEK, DANIEL CARLETON. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Kuru
...in the Pacific Ocean. An American scientist named Daniel Carleton Gajdusek traveled to New Guinea to study the disease, which...practice this ritual, and kuru has almost vanished. Gajdusek thought that kuru was passed from a dead person... Read more
The 1970s: Medicine and Health: Awards
...cell. 1976 Baruch S. Blumberg (United States) and D. Carleton Gajdusek (United States) for their findings of new mechanisms...peptide hormones. 1978 Werner Arber (Switzerland), Daniel Nathans (United States), and Hamilton O. Smith (United... Read more

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Abuse case goes to circuit court: Gajdusek not allowed free contact with minors.(Metropolitan Times)(Top Of The News)
; ...Judge G. Edward Dwyer ordered Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 72, of Middletown to have no...unsupervised contact with minors. Mr. Gajdusek, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize...other Micronesian youths Mr. Gajdusek brought to his U.S. home and... Read more
Colleague Defends Accused NIH Scientist; Friend Says Law Enforcement `Setup' Led to Sexual Abuse Charges
; An associate of Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's defended him yesterday...was happening to Gajdusek, Brown said. "It...conspiracy to destroy" Gajdusek, alleging that the...audio tape in which Gajdusek allegedly admits...and got him to call Carleton and get Carleton to implicate ... Read more
The fall of a family man
; Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is one of the great scientific minds of the 20th century, the man who made possible giant leaps in the understanding of illnesses...islands, caring for them in his own homes in the United States and paying for their education. Now the illustrious career of Dr Gajdusek, 72, a ... Read more
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PEDIATRICIAN ACCUSED OF MOLESTING TEEN BOY RESEARCHER, 72, BROUGHT 56 KIDS TO UNITED STATES AND PAID FOR EDUCATIONS.(News/National/International)
; ...laureate Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek brought children...him. Although Gajdusek has long claimed...Medical School, Gajdusek is the chief...Guinea for years. Gajdusek believed it was...the first time Gajdusek has been investigated...were living with Gajdusek. A teen-age ... Read more
Nobel scientist plummets from pinnacle to disgrace
; Daniel Carleton Gajdusek's rise to the top of the scientific...fall from grace was no less dramatic. Gajdusek, 73, an authority on exotic brain diseases...was one of more than 50 youths that Gajdusek reared in his suburban Washington, D... Read more
Nobel Winner Guilty of Abusing Boy; Under Plea Deal, Former NIH Scientist Will Spend Up to a Year in Jail
; ...to Maryland from Micronesia. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 73, who built a remarkable...spend five years on probation. Gajdusek brought more than 50 youngsters...from the back of the courtroom. Gajdusek raced out as soon as the hearing... Read more
2nd Youth Says He Was Abused By Md. Scientist
; ...that Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek sexually abused him while he was living with Gajdusek in Middletown, Md., the county's top prosecutor said yesterday. Gajdusek, 72, a prominent virologist at the... Read more
RESEARCHER ACCUSED OF PEDOPHILIA.(News)
; For years, Nobel laureate Daniel Carleton Gajdusek brought children home from his...FBI said its investigation of Gajdusek grew out of an investigation...say how the two were related. Gajdusek was charged after the alleged... Read more
Scientist Expected to Begin Jail Time
; Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is expected to begin serving...trip to Micronesia in 1987. Gajdusek, 73, pleaded guilty in February...Central Nervous System Studies. Gajdusek won the 1976 Nobel Prize in... Read more
Nobel Winner Remains Free on Bail in Abuse Case
; Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist charged last month...State's Attorney Scott L. Rolle asked for no increase in Gajdusek's $350,000 bond. Rolle noted that Gajdusek, a National Institutes of Health scientist, has met... Read more

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