Laureate Information

Personal details and nobel prizes.

Full name
D. Carleton Gajdusek
Birthdate
1923-09-09
Birth Location
Yonkers, NY, USA
Nobel Prizes
1
Wikidata
Q108576
Prize details
Awarding year
1976
Awarding date
1976-10-14
Category
Physiology or Medicine
Motivation
for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
Prize amount
681,000
Affiliations

    National Institutes of Health | Bethesda, MD, USA