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Frederick Chapman Robbins

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Frederick Chapman Robbins

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Also known as Frederick C. Robbins, Frederick Robbins

American doctor

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Frederick Chapman Robbins was a male person from the United States. He was born on August 25, 1916, and died on August 4, 2003. His musical genres included 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and country.

Robbins was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Medicine collection. He is associated with one Nobel Prize. His works count is listed as five.

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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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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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