Nobelmen: The discovery of the cause of mad cow disease
The Prize: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Stanley B. Prusiner “for his discovery of prions—a new biological principle of infection.” The same prize went to Carleton Gajdusek in 1976 for his half of work on “discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.” The Science: The […]