The Genius and the Boys

2009, 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. Over his years working...

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Cast

Michael Alpers

Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

Warwick Anderson

Professor in Medical Anthropology

Sena Anua

Medical Reporter - PNGIMR

Carleton Gajdusek

Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

Robert Gajdusek

Brother

Robert Gallo

Robert Gallo

Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV

Oliver Sacks

Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author

Lovisa Mbagintao

Secretary

BenoƮt B. Mandelbrot

Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

Crew

Directing

Bosse Lindquist

Bosse Lindquist

Director

Editing

Production

Jonas Kellagher

Producer

Writing

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