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Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 565
Abstract

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of kuru, was a pediatrician, virologist and chemist whose research focused on growth, development and disease in primitive and isolated populations.

Dates: 1918-2009
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Letter from Julius Axelrod, Christian B. Anfinsen, Marshall W. Nirenberg, and D. Carleton Gajdusek to J. Peter Grace

 Digital Record
Identifier: 101584571X89
Dates: 1 June 1983
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Martin Rodbell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 495
Abstract This collection documents the life and career of American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist Martin Rodbell. The papers consists primarily of professional and travel correspondence, materials related to awards and prizes (including the Nobel and the Gairdner), Rodbell's reprints, laboratory notebooks, photographic prints, and some personal papers. Most of the materials come from the 1970s through the 1990s. The collection documents his extensive professional activities both inside and...
Dates: 1925-1999
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections