Frederick Chapman Robbins
American doctor
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United StatesHe cracked the lab problem that stood between polio and its vaccine — how to grow the virus outside a living body — and shared a Nobel for work that let Salk and Sabin finish the job.
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Born in Auburn, Alabama in 1916 and raised in Columbia, Missouri, Robbins attended the University of Missouri and Harvard before training as a pediatrician and virologist. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller for isolating and growing poliovirus in tissue culture, the breakthrough that made mass vaccination possible. Two years earlier he'd joined Case Western Reserve University as a professor of pediatrics, eventually serving as dean of the medical school from 1966 to 1980. He became president of the National Academy o…
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