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  1. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 was awarded jointly to Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"

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  2. Dec 15, 2008 · D. Carleton Gajdusek, a virologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the mysterious epidemics now known as prion diseases, died last week in Tromso, Norway.

  3. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ d ə ʃ ɛ k / GHY-də-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 the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious ...

  4. Dec 18, 2008 · Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, the brilliant yet deeply flawed pediatrician, virologist and anthropologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his identification and description of kuru,...

  5. Dec 12, 2008 · D. Carleton Gajdusek. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976. Born: 9 September 1923, Yonkers, NY, USA. Died: 12 December 2008, Tromsø, Norway. Affiliation at the time of the award: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  6. D. Carleton Gajdusek, MD— Nobel Laureate in Medicine for 1976. The story behind the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine begins in Australia in 1957. Carleton Gajdusek was in Melbourne as a visiting investigator with Sir MacFarland Burnet at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

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  8. Aug 7, 2015 · Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, of the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia. They won the award for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.

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