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2. Biological Sciences[X]
1Name:  Elso S. Barghoorn
 Year Elected:  1978
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1915
 Death Date:  1/27/84
   
2Name:  Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek
 Institution:  CNRS Institut Alfred Fessard
 Year Elected:  1978
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  209. Neurobiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1923
 Death Date:  December 11, 2008
   
 
A physician and medical researcher, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was the co-recipient, along with Baruch Blumberg, of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking study of the disease Kuru. He is known for establishing the role of "slow viruses" in human disease, espeically of the nervous system. In addition to his studies of kuru in New Guinea, he has extensively studied Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in Europe and the Americas. Born in Yonkers, New York in 1923, Dr. Gajdusek obtained his M.D. from Harvard University in 1946 and performed postdoctoral research at both Harvard and the California Institute of Technology. He studied virus and rickettsial diseases at the Pasteur Institute in Tehran, Iran from 1954-55 and became head of laboratories for virological and neurological research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1958. He was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
 
3Name:  Stephen W. Kuffler
 Year Elected:  1978
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1913
 Death Date:  10/10/80
   
4Name:  Dr. Alexander von Muralt
 Year Elected:  1978
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1903
 Death Date:  5/28/90
   
5Name:  Dr. Howard M. Temin
 Institution:  University of Wisconsin
 Year Elected:  1978
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  205. Microbiology
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1934
 Death Date:  2/9/94
   
6Name:  Michael James Denham White
 Year Elected:  1978
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1910
 Death Date:  12/16/83
   
Election Year
1978[X]