D. Carleton Gajdusek
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1976.
Born: 9, Sep, 1923, Yonkers NY, USA
Died: 12, Dec, 2008, Tromsø, Norway
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
Affiliation at the time of the award: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA
Prize share: 1/2