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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

1923 - 2008

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( 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. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland and at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is the 42nd most popular physician (up from 267th in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,266th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 42 out of 726. Before him are Camillo Golgi, Paul Ehrlich, James Black, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. After him are Marcello Malpighi, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Claude Bernard, Elias Lönnrot, Peter Damian, and Polycarp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 16. Before him are Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Irma Grese, Italo Calvino, and Nadine Gordimer. After him are Rocky Marciano, Peter II of Yugoslavia, György Ligeti, Marcel Marceau, Mas Oyama, and Queen Anne of Romania. Among people deceased in 2008, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 12. Before him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Edmund Hillary, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, and Willis Lamb. After him are Hua Guofeng, Albert Hofmann, Irena Sendler, Richard Widmark, Miriam Makeba, and Mahmoud Darwish.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 380 out of 20,380. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion (1918), The Undertaker (1965), Mario Puzo (1920), Sharon Stone (1958), B. F. Skinner (1904), and Bill Haley (1925). After him are Joe Pesci (1943), William Howard Taft (1857), Linda McMahon (1948), Warren G. Harding (1865), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), and Franklin Pierce (1804).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 2. Before him are Anthony Fauci (1940). After him are Joseph Murray (1919), William P. Murphy (1892), Harvey Cushing (1869), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), George Minot (1885), Michael DeBakey (1908), Harvey J. Alter (1935), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Stanley Cohen (1922), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925).

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