# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-b-sabin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:13.661Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-b-sabin"
name: "Albert B. Sabin"
slug: "albert-b-sabin"
description: "Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel."
tagline: "Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1906-08-26"
deathDate: "1993-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump