Jonas Salk is one of science’s folk heroes ... In his senior year, he had a chance to spend time in a lab that was researching influenza, and he jumped on it. Salk believed that the virus ...

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

Jonas Salk is among the most venerated medical scientists ... In 1947 Salk became the head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. He worked on improving the flu vaccine and ...

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk Institute) was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, (polio vaccine), Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick as an independent, private-not for profit ...

Biographies always overlook people, especially the people who enable a subject’s life. “The help,” as they are often reduced to, are erased from the narrative. This is so true in stories of ...

But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced ... is prepared to fight it. In 1947 Salk became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh.

Millions of people around the world probably best recognize the name of Jonas Salk - who died at age 80 of congestive heart failure on June 23 in La Jolla, Calif. - as that of the discoverer of the ...