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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

1923 - 2008

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( GHY-də-shek; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) 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'. In 1996, Gajdusek was charged with child molestation and, after being convicted, spent 12 months in prison before entering a self-imposed exile in Europe, where he died a decade later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Carleton Gajdusek has received more than 459,240 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is the 322nd most popular physician (down from 242nd in 2019), the 3,063rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,079th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 322 out of 502. Before him are Nicolae Paulescu, Horace Wells, Titus Brandsma, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, Max Heindel, and Irmfried Eberl. After him are Pierre Fauchard, Shinya Yamanaka, Alessandro Achillini, William Chester Minor, Louis de Jaucourt, and Filippo Pacini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 137. Before him are Judith Kerr, Peter Vaughan, Hans Riegel, Mario Brega, Dimitrios Ioannidis, and Onofre Marimón. After him are Lindsay Anderson, Seijun Suzuki, Pahiño, Gordon Mitchell, Shmuel Eisenstadt, and Edward Mulhare. Among people deceased in 2008, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 104. Before him are John Phillip Law, Dee Dee Warwick, Ove Andersson, Leyla Gencer, Mate Parlov, and Marie Smith Jones. After him are Fred Sinowatz, Eva Dahlbeck, Baba Amte, Bronisław Geremek, Albert Cossery, and Anthony Mamo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 3,063 out of 18,182. Before him are Jim Garrison (1921), Ma Rainey (1886), Vanessa Williams (1963), James S. Sherman (1855), John Hughes (1950), and Marie Smith Jones (1918). After him are James Rothman (1950), James J. Gibson (1904), Dwight F. Davis (1879), Jennifer Beals (1963), Alex North (1910), and Douglas Hofstadter (1945).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 40. Before him are Helen B. Taussig (1898), Charles Best (1899), Randy Schekman (1948), George Huntington (1850), William Bates (1860), and Horace Wells (1815). After him are James Curtis Hepburn (1815), Gregg L. Semenza (1956), Richard Axel (1946), Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Crawford Long (1815), and William Kaelin Jr. (1957).

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