Died 2008-08-23.
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Thomas Huckle Weller
Thomas Huckle Weller was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue.
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science · American virologist · biologist · virologist · physician · also Thomas Huckle Weller, Thomas H. Weller, Thomas Weller, Weller
Born 15 June 1915 · Died 23 August 2008 · Q310131
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1996· 1 entry
Was awarded the Walter Reed Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Alexander Fleming Award (1980).
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1954· 5 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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Weller was awarded the George Ledlie prize in recognition of his research on rubella, polio and cytomegalovirus(CMV) viruses
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For showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue
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For discovery of the possibility of growing poliomyelitis virus on various tissue media]", Wiad
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded E. Mead Johnson Award (1953).
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1947· 1 entry
That he rejoined Enders in the newly created Research Division of Infectious Diseases
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1945· 1 entry
Weller married Kathleen Fahey, who died in 2011 aged 95
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1942· 1 entry
During World War II, he entered the Army Medical Corps and was stationed at the Antilles Medical Laboratory in Puerto Rico, earning the rank of Major and heading the facility's Departments of Bacteriology, Virology and P
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1940· 1 entry
And went to work at Children's Hospital in Boston
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1936· 1 entry
Weller entered Harvard Medical School, and in 1939 began working under John Franklin Enders, with whom he would later (along with Frederick Chapman Robbins) share the Nobel Prize
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1915· 1 entry
Born 1915-06-15.
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