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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954

"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
John Franklin Enders Thomas Huckle Weller Frederick Chapman Robbins
John Franklin Enders Thomas Huckle Weller Frederick Chapman Robbins
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
Harvard Medical School; Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA		 Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA		 Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
b. 1897
d. 1985		 b. 1915 b. 1916
d. 2003
 
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