Jonas Edward Salk biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Jonas Edward Salk

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Jonas Edward Salk

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Born:

28 Oct 1914

Died:

23 Jun 1995




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Microbiologist and Virologist                          
                          
Parents Daniel and Dora Salk, three children
First wife Donna Lindsay - 1939–1968, three children
Second wife Françoise Gilot 1970–1995                          
Discovered and developed the first polio vaccine.                          
Polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States.