The name of man who invented the polio vaccine is Jonas Salk.
Jonas salk was a scientist that invented the polio vaccine.
Jonas Salk
Years before Jonas Salk's work, Dr. Albert Sabin developed a polio vaccine using live virus. The Sabin vaccine was used for 18 years before the government recommended using the Salk vaccine, exclusively.
The polio vaccine is called the Salk vaccine after it was invented by Dr Jonas Salk.
Dr. Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk invented the first poliomyelitis vaccine containing inactive viruses.
No, Jonas Salk was not the only one that made a polio vaccine. Dr. Albert Sabin made one a few years after in 1963.
In the 1950s, Salk developed the first polio vaccine, an injection. In 1962, Sabin developed the oral polio vaccine, taken by mouth, and still used, at present.
The first polio vaccine was created in 1952 by Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh. It required years of practice and tweaking to get the vaccine to the point of effectiveness it has today.
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.