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Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School.
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science · American Nobel Prize recipient · physician · university teacher · virologist · physiologist · pediatrician · microbiologist · also Frederick Chapman Robbins, Frederick C. Robbins, Frederick Robbins, Robbins
Born 25 August 1916 · Died 4 August 2003 · Q309885
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Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,690 times.
“What Have Mathematicians Done for Us”
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“How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths”
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“Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM”
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“Maths Doesn't Suck: How to survive year 6 through year 9 maths without losing your mind or breaking a nail”
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“PopSci's Fourth Annual Brilliant 10”
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Died 2003-08-04.
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Published “Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena” in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques — cited 7,484 times.
Robbins returned to Case Western Reserve as dean emeritus and distinguished university professor emeritus
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Assumed the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954).
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For discovery of the possibility of growing poliomyelitis virus on various tissue media]"
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Along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller, making Robbins the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama
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Awarded E. Mead Johnson Award (1953).
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Was appointed professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University
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“The Semantic Conception of Truth”
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“Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals”
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Born 1916-08-25.
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