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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

American medical researcher.

Born September 9th, 1923 in Yonkers. [ref]

Died December 12th, 2008 at 85 years old in Tromsø Municipality. [ref]

Occupations
anthropologist, biologist, physician, virologist

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner