Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Scientist
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (pronounced GUY-dah-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 kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious.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.His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.