Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( pronounced GUY-dah-shek ; September 9 , 1923 - December 12 , 2008 ) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient ( with Baruch S. Blumberg ) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru , the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious .
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek ( September 9 , 1923 - December 12 , 2008 ) was an American physician and medical researcher .