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Dr. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek [1923-2008] was a Nobel Prize winning virologist. Dr. Gajdusek is best known for his research work on prion, or protein based, diseases, most specifically the Kuru disease. He worked on this research primarily in the South Pascific region of New Guinea starting in 1957. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1976. From 1970 to 1997 he also acted as the Head of the Brain Studies Laboratory at the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke. Dr. Gajdusek also received an honorary doctorate from Hahnemann Medical College in 1983. Contains correspondence, a published bibliography, his Nobel lecture with biography in 1976, signed selected reprints, and a photograph.