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Jonas Salk

Jonas Edward Salk was an American physician and researcher, best known as the inventor of the first polio vaccine (the eponymous Salk vaccine). He was born in New York City to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family and died in La Jolla, California; (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995).

Wikipedia and Wikis

Jonas Salk - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

Other

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette feature on Jonas Salk and the Polio cure 50 years later
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05094/482468.stm
1985 Open Mind interview with Richard D. Heffer: ''Man Evolving...''
http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?colle ...
The Time 100 The Most Important People of the Century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile ...
The Salk School of Science (New York, NY)
http://www.salkschool.org
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Jonas Salk Polio site
http://www.umc.pitt.edu/media/pcc050124/salkvax50. ...
Jonas Salk Trust
http://www.jonas-salk.org/
Patent
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PT ...
University of Pittsburgh Jonas Salk site
http://www.polio.pitt.edu/
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
http://www.salk.edu/jonassalk/

Keywords and Synonyms

Jonas Salk, Jonas Edward Salk, Jonas E. Salk, Salk, Jonas Edward