Jonas Salk
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Jonas Salk was a Jewish-American scientist who invented the polio vaccine in the 1950s, protecting millions of people from a serious disease that had caused widespread paralysis and death. His vaccine was one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century and helped eliminate polio as a major public health threat in many parts of the world.
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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 the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.
In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine the number of different types of poliovirus. For the next seven years, Salk devoted himself to developing a vaccine against polio.
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