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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