# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-huckle-weller
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:49.189Z

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name: "Thomas Huckle Weller"
slug: "thomas-huckle-weller"
description: "Thomas Huckle Weller was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue."
tagline: "American virologist (1915-2008)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1915-06-15"
deathDate: "2008-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump