The Genius and the Boys

6.0 2009 89 min
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…

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Director
Bosse Lindquist
Writer
Bosse Lindquist

Cast

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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
Lovisa Mbagintao Secretary
Benoît B. Mandelbrot Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

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