Gajdusek

[gahy-doo-shek, -duh-]

noun

1. D(aniel) Carleton 1923–2008, U.S. medical researcher, especially on viral diseases: Nobel Prize 1976.

Example Sentences

Even a 1997 prison sentence for child molestation did not prompt the NAS to oust physician Daniel Gajdusek from its ranks.

From Nature

Gajdusek deduced that the disease was transmitted during these rituals — but how?

From Washington Post

In 1976, Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering a new family of human diseases.

From Washington Post

In the late 1950s, American scientist Daniel Carleton Gajdusek — “grandiose, driven, a visionary”— trekked to remote villages to find and study kuru cases.

From Washington Post

Lacking an infectious agent, Gajdusek proposed that each might be caused by a “slow virus.”

From Washington Post