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D. Carleton Gajdusek

nobel prize for medicine


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to D. Carleton Gajdusek
Full Name
of the recipient		D. Carleton Gajdusek
AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year of Award1976
Share in Award50.0%
Award Shared withBaruch S. Blumberg (50.0%)
Motivation
for the Award		for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Place of BirthYonkers, NY, United States USA
Date of Birth9 September 1923
Age
at the time of Award		52 years
Place of DeathTromsø, Norway NOR
Date of Death12 December 2008
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