Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted child sex offender, 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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Who was born first?

• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and George Mostow were born the same year
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Freeman Dyson were born the same year
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Harish-Chandra were born the same year
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and René Thom were born the same year
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and Philip W. Anderson were born the same year

Timeline

1. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (this page)September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008
2. Freeman DysonDecember 15, 1923 – February 28, 2020
3. George MostowJuly 4, 1923 – April 4, 2017
4. Harish-ChandraOctober 11, 1923 – October 16, 1983
5. Philip W. AndersonDecember 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020
6. René ThomSeptember 2, 1923 – October 25, 2002

Related

• Marie CurieNovember 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934
• Louis PasteurDecember 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
• Carl Friedrich GaussApril 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855
• Dmitri MendeleevJanuary 27, 1834 – January 20, 1907
• Ernest RutherfordAugust 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
• Erwin SchrödingerAugust 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961
• Wilhelm RöntgenMarch 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923
• Carl SaganNovember 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996