Gajdusek

Gajdusek definition - medical

Gaj·du·sek (gīˈdə-shĕkˌ), D(aniel) Carleton Born 1923.

American virologist. He shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for research on the origin and spread of infectious diseases.

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