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    Jonas Edward Salk (/sɔːlk/; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of...
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    Polio vaccine (redirect from Salk vaccine)
    elsewhere. The success of an inactivated (killed) polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk, was announced in 1955. Another attenuated live oral polio vaccine ,developed...
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    California. The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were...
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    Jonas Salk Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is a Pennsylvania state and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark. The Art Deco...
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    romantic partnership with Pablo Picasso as well as her later marriage to Jonas Salk, the American researcher who developed the first safe polio vaccine. In...
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    the menace of polio growing, Sabin and other researchers, most notably Jonas Salk in Pittsburgh and Hilary Koprowski and H. R. Cox in New York City and...
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    the Egyptians and Greeks to the 1950s epidemics. Two U.S. virologists, Jonas Salk of the University of Pittsburgh and Albert B. Sabin of the University...
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    was killing more American children than any other infectious disease. Jonas Salk's vaccine was made ready for its third and final field tests. It became...
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    developed an inactivated vaccine for the bubonic plague. In the 1950s, Jonas Salk created an inactivated vaccine for the poliovirus, creating the first...
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Betsy Ross* Babe Ruth Sacagawea Jonas Salk John Singer Sargent Antonin Scalia* Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. Junípero Serra...
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    was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh, and announced to the world on 12 April 1955. The Salk vaccine is based on poliovirus...
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  • founder of March of Dimes Virginia Apgar, (1909–1974), infant mortality Jonas Salk, (1914–1995), polio vaccine Theodore H. Tulchinsky, and Elena A. Varavikova...
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  • Katatonia Jonas Sakuwaha, Zambian footballer Jonas Salk, American physician and researcher, best known for the development of the first polio vaccine Jonas Sanker...
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    Kurt Gödel Edwin Hubble John Maynard Keynes Leakey family Jean Piaget Jonas Salk William Shockley Alan Turing Francis Crick & James Watson Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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  • important breakthroughs in biomedical research. For example, by 1954, Jonas Salk was using HeLa cells in his research to develop the polio vaccine. To...
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    company to mass-produce both the polio vaccine, developed in 1955 by Jonas Salk, and insulin. It was one of the first pharmaceutical companies to produce...
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    Cantor as a pun on the newsreel series The March of Time. After funding Jonas Salk's polio vaccine, the organization expanded its focus to the prevention...
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    discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in the United...
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    at a rate of more than 300 papers each month." HeLa cells were used by Jonas Salk to test the first polio vaccine in the 1950s. They were observed to be...
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    latter became the basis for the injected vaccine subsequently developed by Jonas Salk). Koprowski viewed the live vaccine as more powerful, since it entered...
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  • Trask & Co., a technology firm. Kimberlin's career includes work with Jonas Salk, Walter Gilbert, John Wennberg and Robert Langer. In 1982, Kimberlin invested...
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    officers of Bankers Life and Casualty, and radio commentator Paul Harvey. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, later joined the board of directors...
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    Publishing Group. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-679-60479-2. Jacobs, Charlotte (2015). Jonas Salk: A Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 108–110. ISBN 978-0-19-933441-4...
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  • Jonas Salk (1914–1995) was the developer of the first effective polio vaccine. Salk may also refer to: Designation for the inactivated (dead) poliovirus...
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  • in a variety of fields – a few of whom include the medical researcher Jonas Salk, the novelist Herman Wouk, the lyricist Ira Gershwin, and the economist...
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    various topics, such as The Narcissist Next Door (2014); Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005); The Sibling Effect (2011); and Lost...
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  • Meanwhile, Dr. Jonas Salk had set up the University of Pittsburgh's Virus Research Lab in the basement of what is now Salk Hall. By 1951, Salk and his team...
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  • Johnny Giles Lillian Gish Liberace Edna St. Vincent Millay Kim Woodburn Jonas Salk Abraham Ribicoff Nancy Wake Charles XII of Sweden Lee Shelton (disputed)...
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  • Feltesse as Jean Renoir Sand Van Roy as Florelle Michael McElhatton as Jonas Salk Luis Soto as Eugenio Arias Andrew Buchan as Henri Matisse Cynthia Erivo...
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  • Kurt Gödel Edwin Hubble John Maynard Keynes Leakey family Jean Piaget Jonas Salk William Shockley Alan Turing Francis Crick & James Watson Ludwig Wittgenstein...
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