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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 16 > D. Carleton Gajdusek won Nobel Prize for disease study

D. Carleton Gajdusek won Nobel Prize for disease study

By Donald G. McNeil Jr. / The Bulletin
December 16, 2008

D. Carleton Gajdusek, a virologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the mysterious epidemics now known as prion diseases, died last week in Tromso, Norway.

The cause of death is unknown, but Gajdusek was 85 and had long had congestive heart failure, said Dr. Robert....

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