Up for auction the "Nobel Prize in Medicine" Daniel Gajdusek Hand Signed 5X7 Color Photo.

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Daniel

Carleton Gajdusek (/ˈɡaɪdəʃɛk/

GHY-də-shek;

September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician

and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

in 1976 for work on an infectious agent which would later be identified as kuru,

the first known human prion disease. In 1996, Gajdusek

was charged with child molestation and, after being convicted,

spent 12 months in prison before entering a self-imposed exile in Europe, where

he died a decade later. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. and at the American Philosophical Society

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.