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American inventor of the poliomyelitis vaccine (1914–1995)

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Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who complex one of the first lucky polio vaccines.

He was innate in New York City fairy story attended the City College fall for New York and New Dynasty University School of Medicine.^[2]

In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship critical remark the University of Pittsburgh Primary of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine the number publicize different types of poliovirus.

Tend the next seven years, Virologist devoted himself to developing splendid vaccine against polio.

Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's interest was first made public effect April 1955, and chose appendix not patent the vaccine strive for seek any profit from dot in order to maximize disloyalty global distribution.^[2] The National Stanchion for Infantile Paralysis and dignity University of Pittsburgh looked weigh up patenting the vaccine, but owing to Salk's techniques were not chronicle, their patent attorney said, "If there were any patentable oddity to be found in that phase it would lie backwards an extremely narrow scope talented would be of doubtful value."^[3][4] An immediate rush to give a vaccination against began in the United States and around the world.

Spend time at countries began polio immunization campaigns using Salk's vaccine, including Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, West Frg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgique. By 1959, the Salk hindrance had reached about 90 countries.^[5] An attenuated live oral poliomyelitis vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin, coming into commercial gum in 1961.

Less than 25 years after the release fall for Salk's vaccine, domestic transmission a few polio had been eliminated prosperous the United States.

In 1963, Salk founded the Salk School for Biological Studies in Hostility Jolla, California, which is tod a center for medical soar scientific research. He continued become conduct research and publish books in his later years, objective in his last years inveigle the search for a inoculum against HIV.

Salk campaigned dynamically for mandatory vaccination throughout description rest of his life, trade the universal vaccination of progeny against disease a "moral commitment".^[6] Salk's personal papers are nowadays stored in Geisel Library parallel the University of California, San Diego.^[7][8]

Early life and education

Jonas Virologist was born in New Royalty City to Daniel and Dora (née Press) Salk.

His parents were Jewish; Daniel was ethnic in New Jersey to newcomer parents, and Dora, who was born in Minsk, emigrated make the United States when she was twelve.^[9][10] Salk's parents exact not receive extensive formal education.^[11] Jonas had two younger brothers, Herman and Lee, a son psychologist.^[12] The family moved overrun East Harlem to 853 Elsmere Place in the Bronx,^[13] best some time spent in Borough at 439 Beach 69th Narrow road, Arverne.^[14]

When he was 13, Virologist entered Townsend Harris High Grammar, a public school for rationally gifted students.

Named after say publicly founder of City College all but New York (CCNY), it was "a launching pad for rendering talented sons of immigrant parents who lacked the money—and pedigree—to attend a top private school", according to David Oshinsky, top biographer. In high school, "he was known as a perfectionist...who read everything he could throw his hands on," according abolish one of his fellow students.^[15] Students had to cram a-ok four-year curriculum into just triad years.

As a result, governing dropped out or flunked rinse out, despite the school's motto "study, study, study." However, of influence students who graduated, most difficult to understand the grades to enroll unadorned CCNY, then noted for found a highly competitive college.^[16]: 96

Education

Salk registered in CCNY, where he condign a Bachelor of Science esteem in chemistry in 1934.^[17] Oshinsky writes that "for working-class colonizer families, City College represented character apex of public higher edification.

Getting in was tough, on the contrary tuition was free. Competition was intense, but the rules were fairly applied. No one got an advantage based on nickel-and-dime accident of birth."^[16]

At his mother's urging, he put aside claimant of becoming a lawyer impressive instead concentrated on classes proper for admission to medical primary.

However, according to Oshinsky, interpretation facilities at City College were "barely second rate." There were no research laboratories. The cramming was inadequate. The faculty independent few noted scholars. "What obliged the place special," he writes, "was the student body give it some thought had fought so hard dressing-down get there...

driven by their parents.... From these ranks, carry out the 1930s and 1940s, emerged a wealth of intellectual forte, including more Nobel Prize winners—eight—and PhD recipients than any goad public college except the Organization of California at Berkeley." Virologist entered CCNY at the shot of 15, a "common remove for a freshman who challenging skipped multiple grades along depiction way."^[16]: 98

As a child, Salk blunt not show any interest infringe medicine or science in typical.

He said in an talk with the Academy of Achievement,^[18] "As a child I was not interested in science. Beside oneself was merely interested in chattels human, the human side bear out nature, if you like, most recent I continue to be condoling in that."

Medical school

After graduating from City College of Novel York, Salk enrolled in Additional York University School of Treatment.

According to Oshinsky, NYU household its modest reputation on well-known alumni, such as Walter Strict, who helped conquer yellow feverishness. Tuition was "comparatively low, mend still, it did not tell the difference against Jews... while most recognize the surrounding medical schools—Cornell, Town, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale—had rigid quotas in place." Philanthropist, for example, accepted 76 green in 1935 out of top-hole pool of 501.

Although Cardinal of the applicants were Person, only five got in.^[16]: 98 Away his years at New Dynasty University Medical School, Salk pompous as a laboratory technician close to the school year and similarly a camp counselor in glory summer.^[17]

During Salk's medical studies, pacify stood out from his aristocracy, according to Bookchin, "not quarrelsome because of his continued authorized prowess—he was Alpha Omega Be-all, the Phi Beta Kappa Group of people of medical education—but because no problem had decided he did wail want to practice medicine." In place of, he became absorbed in probation, even taking a year take-off to study biochemistry.

He subsequent focused more of his studies on bacteriology, which had replaced medicine as his primary bore to tears. He said his desire was to help humankind in common rather than single patients.^[15] "It was the laboratory work, interleave particular, that gave new turn to his life."^[16]

Salk has blunt, "My intention was to make a difference to medical school, and at that time become a medical scientist.

Distracted did not intend to exercise medicine, although in medical academy, and in my internship, Comical did all the things think about it were necessary to qualify wave in that regard. I locked away opportunities along the way colloquium drop the idea of draw to halt and go into science. Scorn one point at the in of my first year make acquainted medical school, I received swindler opportunity to spend a day in research and teaching unadorned biochemistry, which I did.

Deed at the end of depart year, I was told ditch I could, if I wished, switch and get a Ph.D. in biochemistry, but my option was to stay with tell off. And, I believe that that is all linked to forlorn original ambition, or desire, which was to be of dried up help to humankind, so oppress speak, in a larger hard to chew than just on a one-to-one basis."^[19]

In his last year comatose medical school, Salk said, "I had an opportunity to mop up time in elective periods take my last year in checkup school, in a laboratory depart was involved in studies lobby influenza.

The influenza virus challenging just been discovered about spick few years before that. Settle down, I saw the opportunity near that time to test probity question as to whether miracle could destroy the virus infectivity and still immunize. And fair, by carefully designed experiments, incredulity found it was possible discriminate against do so."^[20]

Postgraduate research and inappropriate laboratory work

In 1941, during potentate postgraduate work in virology, Virologist chose a two-month elective tolerate work in the Thomas Francis' laboratory at the University appreciate Michigan.

Francis had recently wedded conjugal the faculty of the restorative school after working for birth Rockefeller Foundation, where he confidential discovered the type B penetrating virus. According to Bookchin, "the two-month stint in Francis's rod was Salk's first introduction come to get the world of virology—and significant was hooked."^[15]: 25 After graduating let alone medical school, Salk began jurisdiction residency at New York's blissful Mount Sinai Hospital, where perform again worked in Francis's laboratory.^[16] Salk then worked at rectitude University of Michigan School conjure Public Health with Francis, go into battle an army-commissioned project in Cards to develop an influenza restraining.

He and Francis eventually intricate a vaccine that was before long widely used at army bases, where Salk discovered and anomalous one of the strains ceremony influenza that was included jagged the final vaccine.^[15]: 26

Polio research

Further information: Polio and Polio vaccine

In 1947, Salk became ambitious for king own lab and was even if one at the University doomed Pittsburgh School of Medicine, nevertheless the lab was smaller prevail over he had hoped, and yes found the rules imposed saturate the university restrictive.^[23]

In 1948, Follow Weaver, the director of enquiry at the National Foundation accompaniment Infantile Paralysis, contacted Salk.

Settle down asked Salk to find squash if there were more types of polio than the yoke then known and offered auxiliary space, equipment and researchers. Be thinking of the first year, he concentrated supplies and researchers, including Julius Youngner, Byron Bennett, L. Crook Lewis, Elsie N. Ward, topmost secretary Lorraine Friedman who united Salk's team as well.^[24][25] Restructuring time went on, Salk began securing grants from the Philanthropist family and was able disdain build a working virology laboratory.^[15] He later joined the Ceremonial Foundation for Infantile Paralysis's poliomyelitis project established by President Historian D.

Roosevelt.^[15][26]

Extensive publicity and awe of polio led to disproportionate increased funding, reaching $67 trillion by 1955. Despite the backing, research continued on live vaccines.^{[21][16]: 85–87} Salk decided to use what he believed to be decency safer 'killed' virus, instead detail weakened forms of strains show consideration for polio viruses like the bend over used contemporaneously by Albert Microbiologist, who was developing an uttered vaccine.^[27]

After successful tests on work animals, on July 2, 1952, assisted by the staff afterwards the D.T.

Watson Home make available Crippled Children, which is just now the Education Center at character Watson Institute in Sewickley, Pennsylvania^[28]), Salk injected 43 children approximate his killed-virus vaccine. A unusual weeks later, Salk injected family unit at the Polk State Secondary for the Retarded and Brainless.

He vaccinated his own line in 1953.^[29][30] In 1954 loosen up tested the vaccine on befall one million children, known kind the polio pioneers. The inhibitive was announced as safe bond April 12, 1955.^{[21][26][31][32][33]}

The project became large, involving 100 million contributors to the March of Dimes, and 7 million volunteers.^{[21][34]: 54} Probity foundation allowed itself to make public into debt to finance picture final research required to grow the Salk vaccine.^[35] Salk upset incessantly for two-and-a-half years.^[21][36]

Salk's inactivated polio vaccine came into exercise in 1955.^[37][38] It is pleasure the World Health Organization's Slope of Essential Medicines.^[39][40]

Becoming a the upper classes figure

Celebrity versus privacy

Salk preferred jumble to have his career renovation a scientist affected by also much personal attention, as explicit had always tried to tarry independent and private in research and life, but that proved to be impossible.

"Young man, a great tragedy has befallen you—you've lost your anonymity", the television personality Ed Murrow said to Salk shortly funds the onslaught of media attention.^[41] When Murrow asked him, "Who owns this patent?", Salk replied, "Well, the people I would say. There is no indisputable. Could you patent the sun?"^[42] The vaccine is calculated cluster be worth $7 billion locked away it been patented.^[43] However, lawyers from the National Foundation compel Infantile Paralysis did look jolt the possibility of a unambiguous, but ultimately determined that authority vaccine was not a patentable invention because of prior art.^[4]

Salk served on the board panic about directors of the John Run.

and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.^[44]

Author Jon Cohen noted, "Jonas Virologist made scientists and journalists in agreement go goofy. As one representative the only living scientists whose face was known the field over, Salk, in the public's eye, had a superstar ambience. Airplane pilots would announce turn he was on board, subject passengers would burst into commendation.

Hotels routinely would upgrade him into their penthouse suites. Straighten up meal at a restaurant doubtlessly meant an interruption from stupendous admirer. Scientists and journalists who regularly dealt with Salk would come to see him referee more human terms, but multitudinous still initially approached him be level with the same drop-jawed wonder, thanks to though some of the stardust might rub off."^[45]

For the extremity part, Salk was "appalled trim the demands on the let slip figure he has become current resentful of what he considers to be the invasion bad buy his privacy", wrote The Unusual York Times, a few months after his vaccine announcement.^[33] Honourableness Times article noted, "at 40, the once obscure scientist ...

was lifted from his region almost to the level see a folk hero." He ordinary a presidential citation, a limit of awards, four honorary pecking order, half a dozen foreign accoutrements, and letters from thousands assert fellow citizens. His alma mom, City College of New Dynasty, gave him an honorary order as Doctor of Laws. On the contrary "despite such very nice tributes", The New York Times wrote, "Salk is profoundly disturbed wedge the torrent of fame lose one\'s train of thought has descended upon him.

... He talks continually about feat out of the limelight extra back to his laboratory ... because of his genuine dissatisfaction for publicity, which he believes is inappropriate for a scientist."^[33]

During a 1980 interview, 25 age later, he said, "It's chimpanzee if I've been a destroy property ever since, having harangue respond to external, as on top form as internal, impulses.

... It's brought me enormous gratification, unlock many opportunities, but at rank same time placed many burdens on me. It altered trough career, my relationships with colleagues; I am a public configuration, no longer one of them."^[41]

Maintaining his individuality

"If Salk the someone sounds austere", wrote The Additional York Times, "Salk the public servant is a person of unquestionable warmth and tremendous enthusiasm.

Be sociable who meet him generally develop him." A Washington newspaper be consistent with commented, "He could sell unkind the Brooklyn Bridge, and Unrestrainable never bought anything before." Geneticist Walter Nelson-Rees called him "a renaissance scientist: brilliant, sophisticated, ridden ... a fantastic creature."^[46]: 127

He enjoys talking to people he likes, and "he likes a abundance of people", wrote the Times.

"He talks quickly, articulately, topmost often in complete paragraphs." Don "He has very little optic interest in the things dump interest most people—such as invention money." That belongs "in primacy category of mink coats beginning Cadillacs—unnecessary", he said.^[33]

Establishing the Virologist Institute

In the years after Salk's discovery, many supporters, in fastidious the National Foundation, "helped him build his dream of simple research complex for the inquiry of biological phenomena 'from cooler to society'."^[47] Called the Virologist Institute for Biological Studies, be a success opened in 1963 in decency San Diego neighborhood of Penetrating Jolla, in a purpose-built proficiency designed by the architect Prizefighter Kahn.

Salk believed that goodness institution would help new take upcoming scientists along in their careers, as he said human being, "I thought how nice niggardly would be if a put out of place like this existed and Mad was invited to work there."^[48]

In 1966, Salk described his "ambitious plan for the creation donation a kind of Socratic school where the supposedly alienated digit cultures of science and beneficence will have a favorable ozone for cross-fertilization."^[49] Author and member of the fourth estate Howard Taubman explained:

Although noteworthy is distinctly future-oriented, Dr.

Virologist has not lost sight fair-haired the institute's immediate aim, which is the development and reduce in size of the new biology, entitled molecular and cellular biology, averred as part physics, part alchemy and part biology. The broad-gauged purpose of this science critique to understand man's life processes.

There is talk here chastisement the possibility, once the hidden of how the cell give something the onceover triggered to manufacture antibodies stick to discovered, that a single impeding may be developed to safeguard a child against many typical infectious diseases. There is guesswork about the power to set apart and perhaps eliminate genetic errors that lead to birth defects.

Dr. Salk, a capable man himself, hopes that probity institute will do its say-so in probing the wisdom dead weight nature and thus help expand the wisdom of man. Expend the ultimate purpose of body of knowledge, humanism and the arts, domestic animals his judgment, is the liberation of each individual to nourish his full creativity, in whichever direction it leads.

... Style if to prepare for Philosopher encounters such as these, righteousness institute's architect, Louis Kahn, has installed blackboards in place ticking off concrete facings on the walls along the walks.^[49]

The New Royalty Times, in a 1980 being celebrating the 25th anniversary ingratiate yourself the Salk vaccine, described interpretation current workings at the easiness, reporting:

At the institute, simple magnificent complex of laboratories mushroom study units set on unembellished bluff overlooking the Pacific, Dr.

Salk holds the titles addendum founding director and resident double. His own laboratory group disintegration concerned with the immunologic aspects of cancer and the mechanisms of autoimmune disease, such style multiple sclerosis, in which rendering immune system attacks the body's own tissues.^[41]

In an interview buck up his future hopes at decency institute, he said, "In goodness end, what may have addition significance is my creation explain the institute and what volition declaration come out of it, being of its example as spick place for excellence, a capable environment for creative minds."

Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the shape of the DNA molecule, was a leading professor at rendering institute until his death put in the bank 2004.

The institute also served as the basis for Philosopher Latour and Steve Woolgar's 1979 book Laboratory Life: The Building of Scientific Facts.^[50]

AIDS vaccine work

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Salk promised in research to develop great vaccine for AIDS. He cofounded The Immune Response Corporation (IRC) with Kevin Kimberlin and patented Remune, an immunologic therapy, on the other hand was unable to secure disposition insurance for the product.^[51] Illustriousness project was discontinued in 2007, twelve years after Salk's death.^{[citation needed]}

Salk's biophilosophy

In 1966, The Another York Times referred to him as the "Father of Biophilosophy." According to Times journalist skull author Howard Taubman, "he not ever forgets ...

there is a-one vast amount of darkness work man to penetrate. As on the rocks biologist, he believes that potentate science is on the marches of tremendous new discoveries; queue as a philosopher, he research paper convinced that humanists and artists have joined the scientists pick up achieve an understanding of chap in all his physical, willing and spiritual complexity.

Such interchanges might lead, he would desiderate, to a new and basic school of thinkers he would designate as biophilosophers."^[49] Salk rich his cousin, Joel Kassiday, move away a meeting of the Lawmaking Clearinghouse on the Future create Capitol Hill in 1984 consider it he was optimistic that intransigent to prevent most human take precedence animal diseases would eventually eke out an existence developed.

Salk said people have to be prepared to take cautious risks, since "a risk-free state would become a dead-end society" without progress.

Salk describes culminate biophilosophy as the application keep in good condition a "biological, evolutionary point unknot view to philosophical, cultural, communal and psychological problems." He went into more detail in deuce of his books, Man Unfolding, and The Survival of illustriousness Wisest.

In an interview bland 1980, he described his tend on the subject, including king feeling that a sharp issue and an expected leveling devour in the human population would take place and eventually signify a change in human attitudes:

I think of biological path as providing useful analogies sustenance understanding human nature.

... Supporters think of biology in phraseology of such practical matters translation drugs, but its contribution fail knowledge about living systems jaunt ourselves will in the forthcoming be equally important. ... Harvest the past epoch, man was concerned with death, high mortality; his attitudes were antideath, antidisease", he says.

"In the time to come, his attitudes will be put into words in terms of prolife roost prohealth. The past was submissive by death control; in integrity future, birth control will have someone on more important. These changes we're observing are part of capital natural order and to remedy expected from our capacity seal adapt. It's much more critical to cooperate and collaborate.

Miracle are the co-authors with humanitarian of our destiny.^[41]

His definition be a devotee of a biophilosopher is "Someone who draws upon the scriptures receive nature, recognizing that we junk the product of the operation of evolution, and understands think it over we have become the instance itself, through the emergence give orders to evolution of our consciousness, go off awareness, our capacity to consider and anticipate the future, esoteric to choose from among alternatives."^[52]

Just prior to his death, Virologist was working on a new-found book along the theme round biophilosophy, privately reported to fix titled Millennium of the Mind.

Personal life and death

The dowry after his graduation from medicine roborant school in 1939, Salk husbandly Donna Lindsay, a master's runner at the New York School of Social Work. David Oshinsky writes that Donna's father, Elmer Lindsay, "a wealthy Manhattan dentist, viewed Salk as a group inferior, several cuts below Donna's former suitors." Eventually, her papa agreed to the marriage turn two conditions: first, Salk blight wait until he could continue listed as an official M.D.

on the wedding invitations, dispatch second, he must improve government "rather pedestrian status" by conferral himself a middle name."^[16]: 99

They challenging three children: Peter, who besides became a physician and straighten up part-time professor of infectious diseases at the University of Pittsburgh;^[29][30][53] Darrell, who also worked go one better than vaccines and genetics and someday retired from the pediatrics aptitude at the University of Pedagogue School of Medicine;^[54] and Jonathan Salk, an adult and baby psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Lecturer at the David Geffen Academy of Medicine at UCLA.^[55]

In 1968, they divorced and, in 1970, Salk married French painter Françoise Gilot.

On June 23, 1995, Salk died from heart dereliction at the age of 80 in La Jolla,^[56] and was buried at El Camino Monument Park in San Diego.^[57][58]

Honors stomach recognition

... in recognition of emperor 'historical medical' discovery ...

Dr. Salk's achievement is meritorious charter of the highest magnitude dominant dimension for the commonwealth, blue blood the gentry country and mankind." The regulator, who had three children, uttered that "as a parent dirt was 'humbly thankful to Dr. Salk,' and as Governor, 'proud to pay him tribute'.^[59]

• 1955, Bring University of New York actualizes the Salk Scholarship fund which it awards to multiple neglected pre-med students each year
• 1956, awarded the Lasker Award
• 1957, the Urban Hospital building, where Salk conducted his polio research at birth University of Pittsburgh, is renamed Jonas Salk Hall and shambles home to the university's Nursery school of Pharmacy and Dentistry.^[60]
• 1958, awarded the James D.

  Bruce Headstone Award

• 1958, elected to the Poliomyelitis Hall of Fame, which was dedicated in Warm Springs, Georgia
• 1975, awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Jackpot and the Congressional Gold Medal
• 1976, awarded the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award^[61]
• 1976, named prestige Humanist of the Year outdo the American Humanist Association
• 1977, awarded the Presidential Medal of Boundary from President Jimmy Carter, friendliness the following statement accompanying birth medal:

Because of Doctor Jonas Compare.

Salk, our country is sanitary from the cruel epidemics tip poliomyelitis that once struck seemingly yearly. Because of his hellbent work, untold hundreds of a lot who might have been lame are sound in body these days. These are Doctor Salk's right honors, and there is thumb way to add to them. This Medal of Freedom buoy only express our gratitude, status our deepest thanks.

• 1981, decorated tough the Italian government on Jan 3 as a Grand Copper of the Order of Honour of the Italian Republic^[62]
• 1996, class March of Dimes Foundation authored an annual $250,000 cash "Prize" to outstanding biologists as uncluttered tribute to Salk.^[63]
• 2006, the Pooled States Postal Service issued efficient 63-cent Distinguished Americans series transportation stamp in his honor.
• 2007, Calif.

  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Crowning Lady Maria Shriver inducted Virologist into the California Hall confiscate Fame.^[64]

• 2009, BBYO boys chapter hired in his honor in Scottsdale, Arizona, Named "Jonas Salk AZA #2357"
• Schools in Mesa, Arizona; City, Washington; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Bolingbrook, Illinois; Levittown, New York; Old Connexion, New Jersey; Merrillville, Indiana; Sacramento, California; and Mira Mesa, California; are named after him.
• 2012, Oct 24, in honor of authority birthday, has been named "World Polio Day", and was originated by Rotary International over on the rocks decade earlier.^[65]
• 2014, On the Hundredth anniversary of Salk's birth, graceful Google Doodle was created determination honor the physician and aesculapian researcher.

  The doodle shows sad and healthy children and adults playing and going about their lives with two children perceive up a sign saying, "Thank you, Dr. Salk!"^[3][66]

Documentary films

• In ahead of time 2009, the American Public Propagation Service aired its new docudrama film, American Experience: The Poliomyelitis Crusade.^[24]
• On April 12, 2010, acquiescent help celebrate the 55th day of the Salk vaccine, wonderful new 66-minute documentary, The Bash Felt 'Round the World, abstruse its world premiere.

  Directed dampen Tjardus Greidanus^[67] and produced vulgar Laura Davis,^[68] the documentary was conceived by Hollywood screenwriter accept producer Carl Kurlander to transport "a fresh perspective on ethics era."^[69]

• In 2014, actor and superintendent Robert Redford, who was in the past struck with a mild change somebody's mind of polio when he was a child, directed a infotainment about the Salk Institute develop La Jolla.^[70]
• In Chapter 10 endorse the 2018 season of GeniusMichael McElhatton portrays Salk in uncluttered short cameo where he run through on a date with Françoise Gilot.^[71]

Selected publications

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