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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
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American medical researcher
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was a male author associated with Los Angeles. He was recognized by the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Laureates collection, specifically within the Nobel Medicine category. His published works include *Studies on kuru*, *Melanesian journal*, and *China journal*. Other titles listed in his bibliography are *1979 journal in III parts*, *May 6, 1979 to December 8, 1979*, *A year of reentrenchment in a wonderland of infectious amyloids*, and *January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1990*.
Gajdusek was born on September 9, 1923, and died on December 12, 2008. He has an Erdős number of 4. Records indicate he authored 68 works, while another source lists a count of 5. He is referenced by 317 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 09/09/1923
- Died
- 12/12/2008
- Works
- 68
Top works
- Melanesian journal
- China journal
- 1979 journal in III parts, May 6, 1979 to December 8, 1979
- A year of reentrenchment in a wonderland of infectious amyloids, January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1990
- Studies on kuru
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,877x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,756x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,335x
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 40,274x
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,830x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1976
“for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Yonkers
- Place of death
- Tromsø Municipality
- Occupation
- anthropologist
- Educated at
- Harvard Medical School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- virology
- Image
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 2bw.jpg
- Residence
- Yonkers
- Convicted of
- child sexual abuse
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- date of birth
- 1923-09-09
- date of death
- 2008-12-12
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- Commons category
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
- name in native language
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
- P8168
- Boidobra
- interested in
- virology
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Encyclopedic overview
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ˈɡaɪdəʃɛk/ 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 agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'. 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. Despite Gajdusek openly admitting to molesting boys and his approval of incest, he still received support from peers advocating for clemency who felt his crimes were lessened by his scientific contributions.
His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland and at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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