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The Genius and the Boys

Bosse Lindquist

2009 • 1h 29m

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...

The Genius and the Boys

Cast

Bosse Lindquist

Bosse LindquistNarrator

Michael AlpersHimself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

Warwick AndersonProfessor in Medical Anthropology

Sena AnuaMedical Reporter - PNGIMR

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton GajdusekHimself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

Robert GajdusekBrother

Robert Gallo

Robert GalloHimself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV

Oliver Sacks

Oliver SacksHimself - Professor of Neurology and Author

Lovisa MbagintaoSecretary

Benoît B. MandelbrotHimself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

Crew

Bosse Lindquist

Bosse LindquistDirector

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