Jonas Salk Biography

Jonas Salk biography

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NAME: Jonas Edward Salk
OCCUPATION: Doctor, Scientist
BIRTH DATE: October 28, 1914
DEATH DATE: June 23, 1995
EDUCATION: New York University College of Medicine

PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
PLACE OF DEATH: La Jolla, California

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Jonas Salk was an American physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio.

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Jonas Salk was born October 28, 1914 in New York City. In 1942 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health he became part of a group that was working to develop a vaccine against the flu. In 1947 he became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh he began research on polio. On April 12, 1955, the vaccine was released for use in the United States.