Gajdusek Daniel Carleton (12 results)

Autograph note signed, one page, 6 x 4 inch, dated June 24, 1984, inscribed and signed in blue ballpoint ink, in very fine condition.

Signed glossy photograph, shows Daniel Carleton Gajdusek in a half length portrait, 5 x 7 inch, signed in blue ballpoint ink "D. Carleton Gajdusek", in very fine condition.

Original-Farbportraitfoto mit Unterschrift signiert Lindau 1990.

Pas de couverture. Condition: Bon. Authentic signed photo. Size : 18.5x13 cm. Condition : see scans please. Certificate of Authenticity and lifetime guarantee. Signé par l'auteur.

Signed glossy photograph, shows Daniel Carleton Gajdusek in Africa, 5 x 7 inch, signed in black ink "D. Carleton Gajdusek", in very fine condition.

Kein Einband. Condition: Gut. 1923-2008, US-Virologe - Pfo. (ca. 8°) mit U., kl. Mont.spur. Mit kl. Begleitbriefkarte mit U. Beiliegen: Sonderdruck seines Aufsatzes "Physiological and Psychological Characteristics of Stone Age Man" (ersch. in "Engineering and Science", Nr. 6, April 1970) mit Widm. und U., und: Heft mit Autobiographie und ausführl. wissenschaftl. Ausführungen anlässl. seiner "Nobel Lecture" 1976. Reprint des "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services" mit Widm. und U. auf Titel (mit Pfo.). Dazu Karte mit Widm. und U. …

Printed scientific articles signed, 56 pages, 7 x 10 inch, articles titled `Autobiographical sketch` & `Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru` by D. C. Gajdusek - reprint from `Les Prix Nobel en 1976`, Nobel Foundation (1977), signed and inscribed on the front page in blue ink "To Otto Erger - with my compliments - D. Carleton Gajdusek", stitched together to the left edge - in nearly very fine condition.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder that is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, caused by a prion found in humans.The term 'kuru' derives from the Fore word 'kuria/guria' ('to shake'), a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the laughing sickness due to the pathologic bursts of laughter people would display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that Kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Kuru (disease) | Neurological disorder, Cannibalism, Fore people, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek | Christabel Donatienne Ruby | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | OmniScriptum | EAN 9786200791269 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Ce contenu est une compilation d'articles de l'encyclopédie libre Wikipedia. Le kuru est une maladie à prions (parmi lesquels sont trouvées la maladie de la vache folle), découverte en Nouvelle-Guinée au début du XXe siècle. La maladie du kuru a été décrite dans la peuplade des Fore de Nouvelle-Guinée par D.Carleton Gajdusek (prix Nobel de médecine 1976). Quoique distinct de la maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, le kuru est également une encéphalopathie spongiforme transmissible. Son mode de transmission a pu être relié à un rite funéraire anthropophage. Le mot kuru signifie ' trembler de peur ', en foré.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (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 kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious. Gajdusek's father, Karol Gajdusek, was from Büdöskö, Kingdom of Hungary, now Smrdáky, Slovakia and was an ethnic Slovak who was a butcher. His maternal grandparents, ethnic Hungarians of the Calvinist faith, emigrated from Debrecen, Hungary. Gajdusek was born in Yonkers, New York, and graduated in 1943 from the University of Rochester, where he studied physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics. He obtained an M.D. from Harvard University in 1946 and performed postdoctoral research at Columbia University, the California Institute of Technology, and Harvard.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 100 pp. Englisch.