Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Career

1. 1923
   Born
2. 1963
   Won E. Mead Johnson Award
3. 1976
   Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
4. 1992
   Won Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
5. 1993
   Won Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
6. 1996
   Won honorary doctorate of the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
7. 2008
   Passed away
8. Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
9. Member of National Academy of Sciences
10. Member of Australian Academy of Science

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Yonkers
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: physician, virologist, biologist, anthropologist