The Genius and the Boys

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Production countries: Sweden
Origin countries: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Spoken: English
Production: ARTE GEIE, BBC Storyville, DR-Dokumentar, Eight Millimetres, SVT Dokumentär, Svenska Filminstitutet
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Production countries: Sweden
Origin countries: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Spoken: English
Production: ARTE GEIE, BBC Storyville, DR-Dokumentar, Eight Millimetres, SVT Dokumentär, Svenska Filminstitutet
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A

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The Genius and the Boys

Released TV Movie Documentary

20 Nov, 2009 1h 29min

The Genius and the Boys

Released TV Movie Documentary

20 Nov, 2009 1h 29min

Directed by Bosse Lindquist

D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were... see more

Directed by Bosse Lindquist

D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were... see more

Bosse Lindquist

Narrator

71 yrs

Michael Alpers

Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

Warwick Anderson

Professor in Medical Anthropology

Sena Anua

Medical Reporter - PNGIMR

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

†

Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

85 yrs

Robert Gajdusek

Brother

Robert Gallo

Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV

89 yrs

Oliver Sacks

†

Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author

82 yrs

Lovisa Mbagintao

Secretary

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

†

Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

85 yrs

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