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Science & Medicine
Albert Sabin
1906 – 1993
Who
Albert Sabin · Science & Medicine
What
Oral Polio Vaccine
When
1906, Białystok, Poland (Russian Empire) — 1993, Washington, D.C., USA
Where
United States
Biography
Albert Sabin was an American-Jewish pathologist who developed the oral polio vaccine.
How & why
Albert Sabin developed the oral, live-attenuated polio vaccine, licensed in the early 1960s, which is easy to administer and became the main tool of global polio eradication campaigns. Like Salk, he refused to profit from his vaccine. Born to a Jewish family in Białystok, then in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a teenager.
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Source: Oral Live-Attenuated Vaccine
Contributions & Sources
Oral Polio Vaccine
1961
Source: Oral Live-Attenuated Vaccine
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