THE GENIUS AND THE BOYS
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.
Cast
Bosse Lindquist
Narrator
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
Robert Gajdusek
Brother
Robert Gallo
Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV
Oliver Sacks
Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author
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Who would enjoy this
Recommended for
- ✓people who enjoy learning through film
May not appeal to
- –those seeking nonstop action
- –those looking for narrative fiction
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