The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands
- Posted on August 17, 2026
- By The New Yorker
- 0 Views
- 1 min read
In brief
Generating AI summary…
The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands
Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.
