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Frederick Chapman Robbins
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American doctor
Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American doctor who made significant contributions to medical science, particularly in virology and infectious diseases. His work helped advance the understanding and treatment of diseases that affected public health.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1954
“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Robbins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Auburn
- Place of death
- Cleveland
- Occupation
- physiologist
- Employer
- Case Western Reserve University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- virology
- Image
- Frederick Chapman Robbins nobel.jpg
- Residence
- Columbia
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- Frederick Chapman Robbins
- date of birth
- 1916-08-25
- date of death
- 2003-08-04
- interested in
- pediatrics
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Encyclopedic overview
Frederick Chapman Robbins (August 25, 1916 – August 4, 2003) was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School.
He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller, making Robbins the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama. The award was for breakthrough work in isolating and growing the poliovirus in tissue culture, paving the way for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. He attended the University of Missouri and Harvard University.
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