John Franklin Enders - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1954
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John Franklin Enders

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1954
for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue
Together with: Frederick Chapman Robbins , Thomas Huckle Weller
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
2/10/1897
place of birth
West Hartford
date of death
9/8/1985
place of death
Waterford
Lived
88 years

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member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1967
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1953
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1958
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1955
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
field of work
  • biology
  • medicine
occupation
  • entrepreneur
  • chemist
  • biochemist
  • virologist
  • physician
  • bacteriologist
educated at
  • Harvard University
  • Yale University
  • St. Paul's School
employer
  • Harvard University
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