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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (born September 9 1923 in Yonkers) is an American physician and medical researcher of Slovakian-Hungarian descent, who was the co-recipient (along with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first prion disease discovered.
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