Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
American medical researcher
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United StatesHe won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for discovering that kuru—a fatal brain disease in Papua New Guinea—could spread like an infection, opening the door to understanding prions. A decade later, he was convicted of child molestation and spent the rest of his life in exile.
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was born September 9, 1923, and built a career as an American physician and medical researcher working on obscure neurological diseases. His fieldwork on kuru, a deadly condition affecting the Fore people, led him to propose that it transmitted through an "unconventional virus"—work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976, shared with Baruch S. Blumberg. Twenty years later, in 1996, he was charged with child molestation; he was convicted, served twelve months in prison, then left for Europe and never returned. He openly admitted to the abuse a…
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