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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. 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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