The Genius and the Boys (2009)
2009 · 1h 29m · TV Movie, Documentary
Genres: TV Movie, Documentary
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.
Director: Bosse Lindquist
Writers: Bosse Lindquist
Editor: Bernhard Winkler
Cast
Bosse Lindquist as NarratorMichael Alpers as Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on KuruWarwick Anderson as Professor in Medical AnthropologySena Anua as Medical Reporter - PNGIMRDaniel Carleton Gajdusek as Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etcRobert Gajdusek as BrotherRobert Gallo as Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIVOliver Sacks as Himself - Professor of Neurology and AuthorLovisa Mbagintao as SecretaryBenoît B. Mandelbrot as Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)More like this
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