# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonas-salk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:22:17.904Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jonas-salk"
name: "Jonas Salk"
slug: "jonas-salk"
description: "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."
tagline: "Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jonas_Salk_candid.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-10-28"
deathDate: "1995-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: 21
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump