David Bodian
American medical scientist (1910-1992) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 82
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.
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![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.[12]](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)
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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.
