Jonas Salk was born in New York City in 1914. He taught at the universities of Michigan and Pittsburgh and was director (1963-75) of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

While at Pittsburgh, he developed a killed-virus vaccine against Poliomyelitis, the Polio vaccine, which has virtually eliminated polio epidemics in the United States and other countries where it is used.

Posted by Contact on Monday September 21, 1998.