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Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.

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Jonas Salk

Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)

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October 28, 1914

Died

June 23, 1995

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