Disgraced Nobel laureate dies (The Frederick News-Post) Nobel Prize-winning physician and medical researcher D Carleton Gajdusek, who once served a year in jail in Frederick County for molesting a teenage boy he brought home from Micronesia, has died, his biographer said Tuesday Gajdusek was 85 [News Source]

D. Carleton Gajdusek, co-winner of Nobel Prize in medicine, dies (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) OSLO, Norway — Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, a Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher who studied brain diseases and infections that lie dormant for years before attacking the body, was found dead Friday. He was 85. His biographer, Dr. Robert Klitzman of Columbia University in New York, told The Associated Press that Gajdusek was found dead at a hotel in Tromsoe, Norway. Klitzman said he did not ... [News Source]

Nobel Prize-winning scientist, 85, studied diseases of the brain (Long Beach Press-Telegram) Researcher won 1976 Nobel Prize for his work on `slow viruses.' [News Source]

Today in History - Dec. 17 (AP via Yahoo! News) Today is Wednesday, Dec. 17, the 352nd day of 2008. There are 14 days left in the year. [News Source]