Gajdusek
Americannoun
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Even a 1997 prison sentence for child molestation did not prompt the NAS to oust physician Daniel Gajdusek from its ranks.
From Nature
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
Gajdusek deduced that the disease was transmitted during these rituals — but how?
From Washington Post
Lacking an infectious agent, Gajdusek proposed that each might be caused by a “slow virus.”
From Washington Post
In 1976, Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering a new family of human diseases.
From Washington Post
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