Abstract
D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008) was an American virologist and pediatrician who characterized the transmission of kuru, a spongiform encephalopathy found among the Fore people of New Guinea. He was jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Baruch S. Blumberg; “for their discovery of new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases”. He was jailed in 1997 for molesting children that he had brought from New Guinea and Micronesia and left the United States thereafter.
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