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Nature 457, 394 (22 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457394a; Published online 21 January 2009

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Obituary: Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008)

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The most outlandish and peripatetic of microbe hunters.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of transmissible dementias, died on 12 December 2008 in a hotel in Tromsø, Norway. This isolated spot above the Arctic Circle was the winter refuge for American-born Gajdusek during the last 10 years of his life.

  1. Jaap Goudsmit is in the Research and Development Department of Crucell Holland, PO Box 2048, Leiden, 2301 CA, the Netherlands, and in the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam.
    Email: j.goudsmit@crucell.com