Albert Sabin

Albert Sabin

male, deceased (1993)
New York University School of Medicine alumni, from Białystok, Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, poliomyelitis, pole, dengue fever…polio
<b>Albert Bruce Sabin</b> (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish and Polish ancestry who is...
Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph

female, deceased (1994)
athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Olympic competitor for the United States, From Tennessee, American, African American…polio
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23 1940 - November 12 1994) was an American athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, she became the...
Sister Kenny

Sister Kenny

female
polio, Academy Award for Best Actress, Philip Merivale, Mary McCarthy, Films featuring nurse, And They Shall Walk
"Sister Kenny" is a 1946 biographical film which tells the life story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, who fought to help...
Stanley Plotkin

Stanley Plotkin

male
University of Pennsylvania, Tadeusz Wiktor, cytomegalovirus, Varicella, rotavirus, Rubella…polio
Stanley Plotkin is an American physician who currently works as an adviser at pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal...
Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

female, deceased (1958)
Photo 51, cancer of the ovary, double helical structure of DNA, X-ray diffraction images of DNA, Old Paulina, bronchopneumonia…polio virus, polio
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English physical chemist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine...
Thomas Francis Jr.

Thomas Francis Jr.

male, deceased (1969)
University of Michigan, University of Michigan faculty, presidential medal of freedom, polio, Epidemiologist, physician…polio vaccine
Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in...
David Onley

David Onley

male
David C. Onley, Lieutenant-Governor, citytv, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, from Simcoe County, Ontario, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario…polio
David C. Onley (born ca. 1949 in Midland, Ontario) is Lieutenant-Governor-designate of Ontario, and is a former Canadian television personality....
Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn

male, 58 years old
National Book Critics Circle, Independent, salafi, Financial Times, 2003 invasion of Iraq, Trinity College, Oxford…polio
Patrick Cockburn (pronounced) (born March 5, 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the "Financial...
Lis Hartel

Lis Hartel

female, 88 years old
Olympic silver medalist, Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics, equestrianism, 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics, From denmark…polio
Lis Hartel (born March 14, 1921) was a Danish equestrian athlete. Hartel became the first woman in equestrianism to win an Olympic medal when she...
Margarete Steiff

Margarete Steiff

female, deceased (1909)
inventor, German, polio, cat, teddy bear, Toy inventor
German toymaker Margarete Steiff (July 24, 1847 - May 9 1909), born in Giengen, started creating toy stuffed animals in 1880 in the town of Giengen...