Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk
(1914-1995)
Jonas Salk was the first born of Daniel B. Salk and Dora
Press. He was born in New York, New York on October 28, 1914.
He died in La Jolla, California on June 23, 1995.
Salk attended Townsend Harris High School for the gifted and
received his B.A. from College of the City of New York in 1934.
He received his M.D. from New York University in 1930 and
interned at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he …
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…Congressional Gold
Medal in 1955, the Albert Lasker Award in 1956, the Mellon
Institute Award in 1969, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1977. He received the Robert Koch Medal from Germany,
while France named him Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. His
greatest reward was the knowledge of being instrumental in
the eradication of a terrible disease. And as Salk once said,
“Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion
of information and experience."
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