Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York, United States

Date of Death: 12-Dec-2008

Profession: physician, biologist, anthropologist, virologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( GHY-d?-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 an infectious agent which would later be identified as kuru, the first known human prion disease.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.