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Jonas Salk

American physician and medical researcher
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Also known as: Jonas Edward Salk
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Jonas Edward Salk
Born:
October 28, 1914, New York, New York, U.S.
Died:
June 23, 1995, La Jolla, California (aged 80)
Awards And Honors:
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Subjects Of Study:
polio
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Jonas Salk (born October 28, 1914, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 23, 1995, La Jolla, California) was an American physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio. Salk received an M.D. in 1939 from New York University College of Medicine, where he worked with Thomas Francis, Jr., who was conducting killed-virus immunology studies. Salk joined Francis in 1942 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and became part of a group that was working to develop an immunization against influenza. In 1947 Salk became associate professor of bacteriology and head of ...(100 of 416 words)

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