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Jonas Salk

1914 - 1995

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Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine. In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine the number of different types of poliovirus. For the next seven years, Salk devoted himself to developing a vaccine against polio. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jonas Salk is the 159th most popular physician (down from 111th in 2019), the 1,305th most popular biography from United States (down from 824th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular American Physician.

Jonas Salk is most famous for developing the polio vaccine.

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Among physicians, Jonas Salk ranks 159 out of 726. Before him are George Emil Palade, Albrecht von Haller, Howard Florey, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, and Georgios Papanikolaou. After him are Herta Oberheuser, Agnodice, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Peter Agre, Virginia Apgar, and Magnus Hirschfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jonas Salk ranks 41. Before him are Arthur Kennedy, Boris Christoff, Philippe Ariès, Gino Bartali, Vincent J. McMahon, and Etty Hillesum. After him are Renato Dulbecco, Agostino Casaroli, Robert Wise, Norman Borlaug, Max Manus, and James Van Allen. Among people deceased in 1995, Jonas Salk ranks 43. Before him are Hugo Pratt, Fred Perry, Ginger Rogers, Murray Rothbard, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Lita Grey. After him are Louis Malle, Pierre Schaeffer, Aziz Nesin, Ernest Walton, Don Cherry, and Alonzo Church.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jonas Salk ranks 1,305 out of 20,380. Before him are Susan B. Anthony (1820), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Sam Anderson (1945), David Gross (1941), Don Siegel (1912), and Susan Wojcicki (1968). After him are Steve Martin (1945), Robert A. Taft (1889), Jeffrey Wright (1965), Daniel Keyes (1927), Dick Clark (1929), and Zelda Fitzgerald (1900).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Jonas Salk ranks 23. Before him are Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), George H. Hitchings (1905), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Ferid Murad (1936), and Charles Best (1899). After him are Peter Agre (1949), Virginia Apgar (1909), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), Richard Axel (1946), and Randy Schekman (1948).

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