Jaap Goudsmit

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Full Name	Jaap Goudsmit
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1951(1951-07-22)
Age	73
Birthplace	Netherlands
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Cancer

Jaap Goudsmit Biography

Jaap Goudsmit is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 22, 1951 in Netherlands, Netherlands.

In 1978 Goudsmit received his MD degree with honor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam. He was awarded a Fogarty fellowship, and joined the research on kuru with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Carleton Gajdusek. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1982. He received a Fogarty Visiting Scientist Award to do postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1983 Goudsmit became board certified in the Netherlands as a Medical Microbiologist. From 1989 -2001 he was professor in virology at the University of Amsterdam. One Science paper published in 1990 with Goudsmit as senior author created a controversy in the Netherlands and concerned a study of blocking of HIV replication by antisense DNA. Despite the fact that Goudsmit had to retract this paper, he was chosen by his peers in a 1993 Science article as one of the best European AIDS scientists and is still one of the most productive and most cited virologist worldwide.

Goudsmit was among the first in 1986 who discovered that the amount of HIV in blood predicted the progression to clinically manifest AIDS and he discovered in 2008 the achillesheel of the influenza virus that opened the way towards a universal influenza vaccine. In 2013 Goudsmit coined the concept “Immorbidity” for a human life course immune to age-related diseases that prematurely end life, accepting that even with a minimum of disease human life ends. In 2000 the science-fiction writer Wil McCarthy introduced the term ” immorbidity ” in his book ” The Collapsium” as the concept to eradicate all terminal illness during time transport over lightyears making the transported people virtually immortal. Goudsmit disagrees with this link between immortality and immorbidity.

Jaap Goudsmit Net Worth

Jaap Goudsmit is one of the richest Writer from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jaap Goudsmit 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jaap Goudsmit (born 22 July 1951 in Amsterdam) is Dutch scientist, known for his research in the field of AIDS and influenza. He shifted his research interest to aging and neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s Disease. He is also a prolific writer of non-fiction books: Viral Sex, the Nature of AIDS (1997); Viral Fitness, the Next SARS and West Nile in the Making (2004); Serendipity Manual (2012); The Vaccine Bug, a personal history of the World of Immunity (2013); Immorbidity Alphabet, Spelling-out a life free of dis-ease (2015); The Time of your Life, Staying healthy to the End (2016) and The Art of Facing Mortality, a scientist’s view (2016).

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Jakie Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Jaap Goudsmit celebrates birthday on July 22 of every year.