Albert B. Sabin
Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 86
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.
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2006Distinguished Americans seriesAward1993Died3 March 19931986Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1974John Howland AwardAward1970National Medal of ScienceAward1968Mangia d'OroAward1965Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research AwardAward1962Robert Koch PrizeAward1959Howard Taylor Ricketts PrizeAward1941E. Mead Johnson AwardAward1906Born26 August 1906
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Sabin (right) with Robert C. Gallo, M.D., circa 1985![Leaders in the effort against polio were honored at the opening of the Polio Hall of Fame on January 2, 1958. From left: Thomas M. Rivers, Charles Armstrong, John R. Paul, Thomas Francis Jr., Albert Sabin, Joseph L. Melnick, Isabel Morgan, Howard A. Howe, David Bodian, Jonas Salk, Eleanor Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor.[21]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Eleanor_Roosevelt%2C_Albert_Sabin%2C_Jonas_Salk%2C_and_Basil_O%27Connor_at_The_Infantile_Paralysis_Hall_of_Fame_in_Warm..._-_NARA_-_196188.jpg/1280px-Eleanor_Roosevelt%2C_Albert_Sabin%2C_Jonas_Salk%2C_and_Basil_O%27Connor_at_The_Infantile_Paralysis_Hall_of_Fame_in_Warm..._-_NARA_-_196188.jpg)
Leaders in the effort against polio were honored at the opening of the Polio Hall of Fame on January 2, 1958. From left: Thomas M. Rivers, Charles Armstrong, John R. Paul, Thomas Francis Jr., Albert Sabin, Joseph L. Melnick, Isabel Morgan, Howard A. Howe, David Bodian, Jonas Salk, Eleanor Roosevelt and Basil O'Connor.[21]
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United States
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Doctors
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Doctor
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1906 to 1993 · aged 86
