“s diaries. They contained nothing incriminating, apart from a Prufrock-like reference to his inhibitions. The FBI questioned Gajdusek”
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient 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'.
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science · American medical researcher (1923–2008) · physician · virologist · biologist · anthropologist · also Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Carlton Gadjusek, D. Carleton Gajdusek, Carleton Gajdusek, Gajdusek
Born 9 September 1923 · Died 12 December 2008 · Q108576
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2009· 1 entry
Notes that "seven men testified in confidentiality about Gajdusek having had sex with them when they were boys", that four said "the sex was untroubling", while for three of them "the sex was a shaming, abusive, and a vi
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2008· 1 entry
Died 2008-12-12.
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1998· 1 entry
Was permitted to serve his five-year unsupervised probation in Europe
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1997· 1 entry
And, under a plea bargain, was sentenced to 12 months in jail
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (1996).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Comenius University (1996).
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Gajdusek was charged with child molestation, and spent 12 months in prison after being convicted
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research (1992).
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1988· 1 entry
Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1988).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II (1977).
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1976).
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For work on the transmissibility of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional virus'
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1968· 1 entry
Shirley Lindenbaum and Robert Glasse, together with John D
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded E. Mead Johnson Award (1963).
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That suggested not only that Kuru was transmissible, but that cannibalism was the likely mode of transmission
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1957· 1 entry
But could find no likely cause for the epidemic; no conventional infectious agent, no nutritional deficiency, no toxin, as both men wrote in their 1957 paper
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1954· 1 entry
Worked as a visiting investigator at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia
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1951· 1 entry
Gajdusek was drafted into the U
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1946· 2 entries
Studied at Harvard Medical School, Doctor of Medicine (1946).
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And performed postdoctoral research at Columbia University, the California Institute of Technology, and Harvard
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1943· 2 entries
From the University of Rochester, where he studied physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics
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Studied at University of Rochester (1943).
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-09-09.
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