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medical researcher · 20th Century

Jonas Salk

1914–1995

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Sources

Jonas Salk
"Jonas Salk (1914-1995): A vaccine against polio" -- PMC (NIH)
Reviews and coverage of Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, "Jonas Salk: A Life" (Oxford University Press, 2015), quoting Salk's own late-life remarks on the Sabin rivalry and his research assistant's assessment of it
Independent historical accounts of the specific documented Salk-Sabin conflicts (the formalin-inactivation challenge, the 1953 public information leak, and Sabin's Congressional testimony) -- Pulitzer Center, Hektoen International, and university library archive coverage