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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'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Carleton Gajdusek has received more than 491,332 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek is the 267th most popular physician (up from 322nd in 2019), the 2,266th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,056th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Physician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 267 out of 726. Before him are Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Joseph Škoda, Leon Pinsker, Constantine the African, John Harvey Kellogg, and Cicely Saunders. After him are May-Britt Moser, Richard Axel, Bian Que, James Barry, Gavriil Ilizarov, and Rembert Dodoens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 103. Before him are Yves Bonnefoy, Dexter Gordon, Lloyd Shapley, Albert King, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Belisario Betancur. After him are Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Cheikh Anta Diop, Philly Joe Jones, Irvin Kershner, Walerian Borowczyk, and Stig Dagerman. Among people deceased in 2008, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 76. Before him are Jean-Marie Balestre, Eartha Kitt, Mate Parlov, Bettie Page, Anthony Minghella, and Don S. Davis. After him are Bernardin Gantin, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Kiyosi Itô, Michael DeBakey, Leyla Gencer, and Eva Dahlbeck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 2,266 out of 20,380. Before him are Chazz Palminteri (1952), Michael Walzer (1935), Betty Friedan (1921), Joseph E. Johnston (1807), Baruch Goldstein (1956), and Carol Gilligan (1936). After him are Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), John Conyers (1929), Ray Harryhausen (1920), Joseph Kittinger (1928), Albert R. Broccoli (1909), and Tom Petty (1950).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ranks 30. Before him are Patch Adams (1945), Randy Schekman (1948), Henry Heimlich (1920), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), John O'Keefe (1939), and John Harvey Kellogg (1852). After him are Richard Axel (1946), Michael DeBakey (1908), Drew Weissman (1959), Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), and Jack Kevorkian (1928).

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