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Jonas Salk

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Also known as Jonas Edward Salk

Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)

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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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Instance of
human
Given name
Edward
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
La Jolla
Spouse
Françoise Gilot
Occupation
immunologist
Employer
University of Pittsburgh
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Thomas Francis, Jr.
Doctoral student
Robert Lanza
Field of work
epidemiology
Image
Jonas Salk candid.jpg
Residence
United States
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Jonas Salk
date of birth
1914-10-28
date of death
1995-06-23
name in native language
Jonas Salk
birth name
Jonas Salk
member of
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Commons Creator page
Jonas Salk
place of burial
Los Angeles
cause of death
heart failure
manner of death
natural causes
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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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