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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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    California, U.S. 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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    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 was...
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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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    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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    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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  • Jonas Seifert-Salk (born 27 June 2000) is a motorcycle speedway rider from Denmark. Seifert-Salk has two silver medals at the Team Speedway Under-21 World...
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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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  • 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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  • footballer Jonas Reckermann, German beach volleyball player Jonas Renkse, Singer of Swedish band Katatonia Jonas Sakuwaha, Zambian footballer Jonas Salk, American...
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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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    being the first company to mass-produce the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, and insulin. It was one of the first pharmaceutical companies to produce...
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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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    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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    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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  • infants. Salk was the younger son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Dora (Press) and Daniel Salk. He was born and reared in New York. Jonas Salk, inventor...
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    park and is the final resting site for Jonas Salk (who discovered the polio vaccine and founded the renowned Salk Institute), as well as several members...
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  • assistant to medical researcher Jonas Salk, who developed the first widely used polio vaccine. She began working with Salk at the Virus Research Laboratory...
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    many breakthroughs which led to modern medicine. On 6 March 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk announced the completion of the first successful killed-virus Polio vaccine...
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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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  • 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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  • (1946) (Jewish mother) Daniel Nathans, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1978) Jonas Salk, polio vaccine Howard Temin, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)...
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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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  • of Oregon who had adapted the work of child psychologist Lee Salk (whose brother Jonas Salk had invented a vaccine for polio) in the 1970s, with psychologist...
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    Avenues in Manhattan. The school was named for Jonas Salk, developer of the first polio vaccine. Dr. Salk approved the use of his name by NYU before his...
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  • Vaccines Inventors/ researchers Edward Jenner Louis Pasteur Hilary Koprowski Jonas Salk John Franklin Enders Maurice Hilleman Stanley Plotkin H. Fred Clark Paul...
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  • poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue". Meanwhile, Jonas Salk applied the Enders-Weller-Robbins technique to produce large quantities...
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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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