Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ˈɡaɪdəʃɛk/ GHY-də-shek;[1] 9 September 1923 – 12 Disember 2008) ialah ahli fizik dan penyelidik perubaan Amerika yang merupakan penerima (bersama Baruch S. Blumberg) Hadiah Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Perubatan pada 1976 untuk bekerja pada agen berjangkit yang kemudian dikenal pasti sebagai kuru, penyakit prion manusia yang pertama diketahui.[2]
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- Acute Infectious Hemorrhagic Fevers and Mycotoxicosis in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1953), Washington, DC: Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Daniel C. Gajdusek published hundreds of articles in scientific and medical journals. This is an incomplete list of some of the more cited ones.
- Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton. Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru. National Institutes of Health, 1977.
- Gajdusek; Carleton, Daniel; Gibbs, Clarence J.; Alpers, Mâ (1966). "Experimental transmission of a Kuru-like syndrome to chimpanzees". Nature. 209 (5025): 794–796. Bibcode:1966Natur.209..794G. doi:10.1038/209794a0. PMID 5922150.
- Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton (1957). "Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea: the endemic occurrence of" kuru" in the native population". New England Journal of Medicine. 257 (20): 974–978. doi:10.1056/nejm195711142572005. PMID 13483871.
- Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton (1985). "Hypothesis: interference with axonal transport of neurofilament as a common pathogenetic mechanism in certain diseases of the central nervous system". The New England Journal of Medicine. 312 (11): 714–719. doi:10.1056/nejm198503143121110. PMID 2579335.
- Gibbs, Clarence J.; Carleton Gajdusek, Daniel (1969). "Infection as the etiology of spongiform encephalopathy (Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease)". Science. 165 (3897): 1023–1025. Bibcode:1969Sci...165.1023G. doi:10.1126/science.165.3897.1023. PMID 5804726.
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- ^ Holley, Joe (December 16, 2008) "D. Carleton Gajdusek; Controversial Scientist", The Washington Post, p. B5.
- ^ "Physiology or Medicine 1976 – Press Release". Nobelprize.org. 14 October 1976. Dicapai pada 21 July 2018.
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- Anderson, Warwick (2008). The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. Baltimore: JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9040-6. LCCN 2008007840.
- Rhodes, Richard (1997). Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-82360-7.
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| Wikimedia Commons mempunyai media berkaitan Daniel Carleton Gajdusek |
- Gajdusek's autobiography, written at the time of his Nobel Prize
- (Hungary) Current autobiography in Hungarian
- Carleton Gajdusek di Pangkalan Data Filem Internet (IMDb)
- D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers MSS 421. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.