Jonas Salk
1914–1995
American developer of the first polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) was a virologist, born in New York City, United States and died in La Jolla, United States.
- Known as
- Virologist
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 1914, New York City, United States
- Died
- 1995, La Jolla, United States
Alive at the same time as Jonas Salk
- Werner Heisenberg 1901–1976, physicist
- Barbara McClintock 1902–1992, geneticist
- Don Bradman 1908–2001, cricketer
- Estée Lauder 1908–2004, cosmetics entrepreneur
- Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908–2004, photographer
- Cahit Arf 1910–1997, mathematician
- Akira Kurosawa 1910–1998, director
- Jacques Cousteau 1910–1997, oceanographer
- Joe DiMaggio 1914–1999, baseball player
- Francis Crick 1916–2004, molecular biologist
- Richard Feynman 1918–1988, physicist
- James Watson 1928–2025, molecular biologist
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