Jonas Salk's Significance
Jonas Edward Salk was born in New York, New York on October 28, 1914. He attended the University of Michigan, New York University College of Medicine, and City College of New York. In 1942 Salk became part of a group that was in the process of developing a vaccine against influenza. Within five years, he became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Salk began working with the polio virus while in Pittsburgh. His main goal was to find a vaccine to end polio once and for all. Salk's revolutionary polio vaccine was released on April 12, 1955.
The Vaccine
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"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." -Jonas Salk |