“What the World’s religions teach, applied to vaccines and immune globulins”
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Albert B. Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
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science · Polish-American medical researcher (1906–1993) · virologist · university teacher · inventor · pathologist · immunologist · epidemiologist · physician · Specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology · microbiologist · also Albert B. Sabin, Albert Sabin, Albert Bruce Sabin, Albert B Sabin, Sabin
Born 26 August 1906 · Died 3 March 1993 · Q164790
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2012· 1 entry
Albert Sabin was named a "Great Ohioan" by the Capitol Square Foundation
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Distinguished Americans series (2006).
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1999· 1 entry
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center named its new education and conference center for Sabin
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1993· 2 entries
Died 1993-03-03.
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To continue the work of developing and promoting vaccines
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1986· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Ronald Reagan (1986).
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1983· 1 entry
Sabin developed calcification of the cervical spine, which caused paralysis and intense pain
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded John Howland Award (1974).
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1970· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1970).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Mangia d'Oro (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
To discuss with Cuban officials the possibility of establishing a collaborative relationship between the United States and Cuba through their respective national academies of sciences, in spite of the fact that the two c
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
A single trivalent OPV containing all three viral serotypes was approved
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Robert Koch Prize (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1959).
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1951· 1 entry
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis's typing program confirmed the existence of three main serotypes of poliovirus, since known as type 1, type 2, and type 3
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1949· 1 entry
An achievement that earned them the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded E. Mead Johnson Award (1941).
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1939· 1 entry
Moved to Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio
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1934· 1 entry
Conducted research at The Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine in England, then joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)
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1930· 1 entry
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States and changed his name to Albert Bruce Sabin
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1928· 1 entry
And a medical degree in 1931 from New York University
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1921· 1 entry
Emigrated with his family on the SS Lapland which sailed from Antwerp to the Port of New York
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-08-26.
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