Dr. Jonas Salk
To prevent polio.
The Polio Vaccine.
Albert Sabin invented the oral live attenuated virus vaccine.
The polio vaccine is called the Salk vaccine after it was invented by Dr Jonas Salk.
The inventor of one of the forms of the Polio vaccine, Dr. Salk was born in New York City and died 1995 due to heart failure.
No, Jonas Salk was not the only one that made a polio vaccine. Dr. Albert Sabin made one a few years after in 1963.
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk came up with the first injectable polio vaccine, followed by Albert Sabin who came up with the first oral polio vaccine.
The polio vaccine was made pubic in April, 1955.
Physician and researcher. He invented a polio vaccine.
Dr. Jonas Salk invented polio vaccine. He did not patented the vaccine. That made him the real hero. To day is his 100th birth day. (28th October 2014.)
Jonas Salk's initial testing of polio vaccine is 60 - 70% effective against PV1 (poliovirus type 1, over 90% effective against PV2 and PV3, and 94% effective against the development of bulbar polio.