Daniel Carleton Gajdusek - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1976
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1976
for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
Together with: Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
9/9/1923
place of birth
Yonkers
date of death
12/12/2008
place of death
Tromsø Municipality
Lived
85 years

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educated at
  • Harvard Medical School
    • academic degree: Doctor of Medicine
    • end time: 1946
  • Walter Reed Army Medical Center
    • start time: 1951
  • California Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1948
  • University of Rochester
    • end time: 1943
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1978
  • The World Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium
  • Australian Academy of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
occupation
  • physician
  • biologist
  • anthropologist
  • virologist
field of work
  • virology
work location
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
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