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Jonas Salk

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

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Epidemiology
Virology

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2 works

    • Books

    Biological basis of disease and behavior / Jonas E. Salk.

    | Jonas Salk | Date: 1963
    • Books

    Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1, A preliminary report of experiments in progress / Jonas E. Salk ; with the collaboration of Byron L. Bennett, L. James Lewis, Elsie N. Ward, and J.S. Youngner.

    | Jonas Salk | Date: 1953

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    • Books

    Smallpox, syphilis, and salvation : medical breakthroughs that changed the world / Sheryl Persson.

    | Persson, Sheryl Ann, 1952- | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Breakthrough : the saga of Jonas Salk / Richard Carter.

    | Richard Carter | Date: 1966
    • Ephemera

    Postage stamps ephemera. Box 11A.

    • Audio

    Voice of medicine. Volume 1 No. 3 August-September 1960.

    | Date: 1960
    • Ephemera

    Postage stamps ephemera. Box 4.

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Related topics

Poliomyelitis
Vaccination
History, 20th Century
United States
Plants, Medicinal
Red Cross
Persons with Disabilities
Malaria
Leprosy

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