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Basic biography and history. ... Jonas Salk was born in New York City. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who, although they themselves lacked formal education, were determined to see their children succeed, and encouraged them to study hard.
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Provides a short biography of the developer of the polio vaccine. ... Jonas Salk was still a student when he began to look for a better answer to his classroom question, and the answer he found led to one of the most dramatic breakthroughs in the history of medicine.
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Jonas Salk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jonas Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was bor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
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; Jonas Salk; Many scientists were racing to make a polio vaccine in the '50s — but he got there first; By WILFRID SHEED; 21st Century: What's Next?; Test-Based Society: The IQ Meritocracy; They Were Onto Something: A Century of Science Fiction;
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www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/salk.html
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Jonas Salk is among the most venerated medical scientists of the century. Though his first words were reported to be "dirt, dirt," his early thoughts were not on studying germs but on going into law. He became interested in biology and chemistry, however, and decided to go into research.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmsalk.html
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Poliomyelitis has been around since ancient times. There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it.
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