Thomas Francis, Jr.
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican physician, virologist, and epidemiologist (1900-1969)
United StatesLived 1900 to 1969 · aged 69Fame41.9
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Thomas Francis Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk.
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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.[1]](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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Wilhelm BurgdorferAlso won Alexander Fleming Award
Geoffrey DummerAlso won Medal of Freedom
Marc KirschnerAlso won Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize
Donald MetcalfAlso won Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Charles David AllisAlso won Howard Taylor Ricketts PrizeIrving WeissmanAlso won Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko MedalAbout this person
Thomas Francis Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in the United States, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza, and took part in the development of influenza vaccines.
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Lived 1900 to 1969 · aged 69
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