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He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts beginning in the early 1970s.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"28 May 1942","date":"1942-05-28"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Des Moines","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39709"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"physician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39631"},{"text":"virologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15634281"},{"text":"biochemist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2919046"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"neurologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q783906"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4120165"},{"text":"University of California, San Francisco","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1061104"},{"text":"Walnut Hills High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7963635"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q999734","date":"1994"},{"text":"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80061","date":"1997"},{"text":"Wolf Prize in Medicine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540561","date":"1995"},{"text":"Canada Gairdner International Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031994","date":"1993"},{"text":"Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q458338","date":"1995"},{"text":"National Medal of Science","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q737051","date":"2009"},{"text":"Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q899039","date":"1997"},{"text":"Dickson Prize in Medicine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1210161","date":"1993"},{"text":"Keio Medical Science Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1324940","date":"1996"},{"text":"Potamkin Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7234626","date":"1991"},{"text":"Humboldt Research Fellowship","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28854612"},{"text":"Max Planck Research Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1912039","date":"1992"},{"text":"Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30123933","date":"1994"},{"text":"Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904645","date":"1996"},{"text":"Richard Lounsbery Award","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1765722","date":"1993"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_B._Prusiner","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155380"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Stanley B. 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