American born in 1932 in New York. At first he studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Rochesterpero then medicine at Harvard University. Furthered his studies in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He worked as a researcher at Harvard University in Iran and Australia, and was part of research team from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases in Bethesda (Maryland). discovered in 1957, among the natives of New Guinea, a disease affecting the central nervous system and was called by the Indians themselves as kuru ("trembling"). Gajdusek and Gibbs showed that the disease was not hereditary, as had hitherto thought, but was caused by an infectious agent "slow" transmitted through cannibalism. Subsequently, Prusiner prove it was caused by an abnormal protein called a prion.
working since 1958 at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda as a professor of pediatrics, first, and later in virology.
since 1957 Dedicated to the study of slow virus in 1976 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his studies on the disease known as spongiform encephalopathies, an award he shared with fellow Baruch S. Blumberg.
In April 1996 he was arrested for pedophilia in the course of a federal investigation against child pornography rings. Following the declaration of victims of sexual abuse during childhood and the incriminating evidence, pleaded guilty in 1997 and sentenced to 19 months in prison. In 1998 allowed him to travel to Europe on probation for be 5 years of surveillance by law.
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