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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
Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS C 69
Abstract
Sawyer is best known for his role in developing a vaccine for yellow fever and working to eradicate the disease as a public health threat whle working for the Rockefeller Foundation's West Africa Yellow Fever Commission.
Dates:
1879-1995
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