# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-bodian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:22:43.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-bodian"
name: "David Bodian"
slug: "david-bodian"
description: "David Bodian was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research. In the early 1940s he helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of polio vaccines by combining neurological research with the study of the pathogenesis of polio. With his understanding of the disease, he made a series of crucial discoveries that paved the way for the final development of a vaccine by Jonas Salk and later by Albert Sabin. He received the E. Mead Johnson Award in Pediatrics and the Karl Spencer Lashley Award for his work, along with numerous other distinctions."
tagline: "American medical scientist (1910-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bodianws.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-05-15"
deathDate: "1992-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.75
  historical:           4.603384
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديفيد بوديان"
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    title: "ഡേവിഡ് ബോഡിയൻ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump