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The Children a Scientist Took Home

By Rachel Aviv · The New Yorker · August 2026
The Children a Scientist Took Home
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"Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S., Rachel Aviv reports."

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