* 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.

* Jonas Salk ( 1934 ), Developed the first polio vaccine

Jonas Salk in 1955 holds bottles of a culture used to grow polio vaccines.

This work aided Jonas Salk in deriving a polio vaccine from deactivated polio viruses ; this vaccine was shown to be effective in 1955.

In 1955 Jonas Salk invented a polio vaccine which was given to more than seven million American students.

* March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

* 1952 – Jonas Salk develops the first polio vaccine ( available in 1955 )

* Jonas E. Salk Middle School

As a memorial to Jonas Salk, a golden engraving lies on the floor at the entrance to the institute: " Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

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She loved reading about people like Marie Curie and through her father, who was a researcher on polio, she met Dr Jonas Salk.

As the decade progressed, science stories in the news, such as Jonas Salk ’ s vaccine for polio and the launch of Sputnik, brought science fiction to reality and attracted increasing numbers of students to fairs.

By 1954, the HeLa strain of cells was being used by Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine for polio.

HeLa cells were used by Jonas Salk to test the first polio vaccine in the 1950s.

He describes Nelson-Rees's identification of this pervasive worldwide problem — affecting even the laboratories of the best physicians, scientists, and researchers, including Jonas Salk — and many, possibly career-ending, efforts to address it.

* 1952 First vaccine for polio by Jonas Salk

Throughout the Academy ’ s history, 10, 000 fellows have been elected, including such notables as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John James Audubon, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jonas Salk, Eudora Welty, and Duke Ellington.

* 1980-1981 Joan Abrahamson ; President, The Jefferson Institute ; President, Jonas Salk Foundation

He served as a National Trustee for the March of Dimes for more than a decade, was named an Honorary Life Trustee of the organization in 1998, and received the “ Jonas Salk Lifetime Achievement Award ” for his fundraising efforts.

Byck also had sent bizarre tape recordings to various other public figures including scientist Jonas Salk, U. S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, and conductor Leonard Bernstein ; and had tried to join the Black Panthers.

This innovative product was used in a large-scale field test of the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.

* 1952 – Jonas Salk: developed and tested first polio vaccine

::" You say Jonas Salk played Columbo on television, you think William Shakespeare wrote Brigadoon, and Catcher in the Rye was written by Pierre Salinger.

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