Virologists - Peter Duesberg, Martinus Beijerinck, Renato Dulbecco, Jonas Salk, Steven Hatfill, Luc Montagnier, Thomas Henry Flewett (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Peter Duesberg, Martinus Beijerinck, Renato Dulbecco, Jonas Salk, Steven Hatfill, Luc Montagnier, Thomas Henry Flewett, Jeffery Taubenberger, Hilary Koprowski, Jean-Pierre Lecocq, Robert Webster, Vincent Racaniello, Ab Osterhaus, Thomas Francis, Jr., Patrick S. Moore, Geoffrey L. Smith, David Bodian, Eva Harris, Malik Peiris, Charles Armstrong, Jose Antonio Lopez Guerrero, Dorothy M. Horstmann, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Deepak Shukla, Robert R. Redfield, Joseph Sambrook, Marguerite Vogt, J. Michael Bishop, Yuan Chang, Thomas Milton Rivers, C. J. Peters, Ludwik Gross, Richard Tedder, Lorne Babiuk, Ewa Bjorling, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Jeffrey E. Barlough, Isabel Morgan, Ralf Altmeyer, Joseph Edward Smadel, Robley C. Williams, John Skehel, Sarah Stewart, Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, Constantin Levaditi, Morag Crichton Timbury, Diane Griffin, Samuel Katz, Norman Pirie, Susana Lopez Charreton, Tony Minson, Max Essex, Opendra Narayan, Forest Rohwer, Margaret Stanley, Bert Achong, Albert Kapikian, Leslie Collier, Yvonne Barr, John Coffin, Prasert Thongcharoen, Adolf Mayer, Hiroaki Mitsuya, Hermann Goncalves Schatzmayr, Ruth Bishop, Patrick Laidlaw, Patrick Meenan, Paul Ahlquist, Anne Simon, Jonathan P. Stoye, Alick Isaacs, Gene Johnson, Vittorio Colizzi, Pradeep Seth, Christopher Andrewes. Excerpt: Jonas Edward 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 born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families. Although they themselves did not have much formal education, they were determined to see their children succeed. While attending New York University School of Medicine, he stood out from his peers not just beca...