D. Carleton Gajdusek papers, 1926-1997.

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D. Carleton Gajdusek papers, 1926-1997.

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The papers document physician, virologist, and medical researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek's four decades of research on the causes and transmission of kuru, a neurodegenerative disease found among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. The papers include a broad collection of both Gajdusek's and other scientists' early work on kuru in three bound volumes (1957-1966). Included in the collection are numbered reprints of Gajdusek's research on the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) and other related subjects. The collection also contains Gajdusek's published and unpublished journals, videorecordings, catalogs describing their content, which include extensive films of people with kuru victims, as well as other people, activities, and locations in Papua New Guinea. The collection consists solely of photocopied and published materials and does not include any original, handwritten material.

14.0 lin. ft. (35 archives boxes)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 1923-, MD, 1946, Harvard Medical School, was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for his research proving that slow viruses are a major cause of degenerative neurological disorders. Gajdusek served as head of laboratories for virological and neurological research, and later was head of the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at the National Institutes of Health; his research focused on child growth and development in primitive cultures, imm...