What is Daniel Carleton Gajdusek?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Daniel Carleton Gajdusek |image = Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 2bw.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|1923|9|9}} |birth_place = [[Yonkers]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2008|12|12|1923|9|9}} |death_place = [[Tromsø]], [[Norway]] |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States]] |ethnicity = |field = [[Medicine]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = [[University of Rochester]], [[Harvard Medical School]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[Prion]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = [[Lukas Plank]] |prizes = [[E. Mead Johnson Award]] <small>(1963)</small><br>[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] <small>(1976)</small> |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Daniel Carleton Gajdusek''' (September 9, 1923 - December 12, 2008) was an [[Americans|American]] [[physician]] and [[Medicine|medical]] [[research]]er. He and [[Baruch Samuel Blumberg]] won the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1976. They got the Nobel for work on [[Kuru (disease)|kuru]]. Kuru is the first [[human]] [[prion]] [[disease]] shown to be [[infection|infectious]]. == Early years == Gajdusek's father, Karol Gajdusek, was from Büdöskö, [[Kingdom of Hungary]], now [[Smrdáky]], [[Slovakia]]. He was an [[Ethnicity|ethnic]] Slovak who was a [[butcher]]. His mother's parents from [[Debrecen]], Hungary. Gajdusek was born in [[Yonkers]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. He [[wikt:graduate|graduated]] from the [[University of Rochester]] in 1943. Gajdusek studied [[physics]], [[biology]], [[chemistry]] and [[mathematics]]. He got an [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]] from [[Harvard University]] in 1946. His postdoctoral research was done at [[Columbia University]], the [[California Institute of Technology]], and Harva