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Albert B. Sabin
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Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1906
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The Arabs need and want peace, but -
- Śiḥot be-Yarden uve-Mitsrayim
- Nutrition as a factor in the development of constitutional barriers to involvement of the nervous system by certain viruses
- Viruses and cancer
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,784x
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,672x
- Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
· 1977 · cited 50,563x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,402x
- Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
· 1999 · cited 28,082x
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Key facts
- Born
- Abram Saperstejn , ( 1906-08-26 ) August 26, 1906, Białystok , Russian Empire , (now Poland )
- Died
- March 3, 1993 (1993-03-03) (aged 86), Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Poland (until 1930), US (since 1930)
- Alma mater
- New York University ( BS , MD )
- Known for
- Oral polio vaccine
- Spouses
- Sylvia Tregillus ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1935 ; died 1966 ) Jane Warner (died 2002) ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1971 ) Heloisa Dunshee de Abranches ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ) (died 2016)
- Awards
- E. Mead Johnson Award (1941), National Medal of Science (1970), John Howland Award (1974), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1986)
- Fields
- Immunology , virology
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Official website
Sabin Vaccine Institute | Extending Vaccine Accessibility & Innovation
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Encyclopedic overview
Albert Bruce Sabin (/ˈseɪbɪn/ SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Biography
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