Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
1923 – 2008 · aged 85
American medical researcher
- Born
- 9 Sept 1923 · Yonkers
- Died
- 12 Dec 2008 · Tromsø Municipality
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 9 Sept 1923BornBorn in Yonkers
- 1963AwardE. Mead Johnson Award
- 1976AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1977AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II
- 1988AwardHuxley Memorial Medal
- 1992AwardBengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
- 1993AwardFellow of the Australian Academy of Science
- 1996AwardHonorary doctor of Comenius University
- 1996AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
- 12 Dec 2008DiedDied in Tromsø Municipality
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1923 – 2008).
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
Biography
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( GHY-də-shek; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted child sex offender, 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 spent 12 months in prison after being convicted. He subsequently entered a self-imposed exile in Europe, where he died a decade later. Despite openly admitting to molesting boys and his approval of incest, Gajdusek still received support from many peers who advocated clemency and felt his crimes were lessened by his scientific contributions.
His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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