Daniel Carleton Gajdusek - Death

Death

Gajdusek died December 12, 2008 in Tromsø, Norway, at the age of 85. He was working and visiting colleagues in Tromsø at the time of his death.

Read more about this topic:  Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Famous quotes containing the word death:

    “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “For ‘tis not in mere death that men die most.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper. All rose, exchanging smiles.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)