Died 1985-09-08.
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John Franklin Enders
John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."
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business · American medical researcher (1897-1985) · virologist · chemist · entrepreneur · physician · biochemist · bacteriologist · also John Franklin Enders, John F. Enders, John Enders, Enders
Born 10 February 1897 · Died 8 September 1985 · Q312961
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1985· 1 entry
1973· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Toulouse-III University (1973).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1967).
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1963· 3 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Lyndon B. Johnson (1963).
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Awarded AMA Scientific Achievement Award (1963).
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A deactivated measles vaccine and an attenuated measles vaccine were introduced by Pfizer and Merck & Co
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Robert Koch Prize (1962).
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Awarded Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Enders wrote to the newspaper to acknowledge the work of various colleagues and the collaborative nature of the research
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1954· 3 entries
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.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1954).
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1949· 1 entry
Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins reported successful in vitro culture of an animal virus—poliovirus
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1922· 1 entry
And tried several careers before choosing the biomedical field with a focus on infectious diseases, gaining a PhD at Harvard in 1930
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-02-10.
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1728· 1 entry
“Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion”
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1725· 1 entry
“A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain”
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