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In which year was Daniel Carleton Gajdusek awarded the Nobel Prize?

  • 1976

  • 1984

  • 1969

  • 1997

Answer

In 1976, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He was recognized for his work on kuru, a fatal brain disease that was endemic in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Gajdusek was able to show that kuru was caused by a prion, a type of infectious protein that can cause brain damage.
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