John Franklin Enders
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 John Franklin Enders's bronze bust at the Polio Hall of Fame
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| Born | February 10, 1897 West Hartford, Connecticut |
| Died | September 8, 1985 (aged 88) Waterford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Known for | poliomyelitis viruses |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1954 |
John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders had been called "The Father of Modern vaccines."
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[edit] Life
Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut and was educated at the Noah Webster School at Hartford and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He then attended Yale University for a short time before entering the United States Army Air Corps in 1918.
After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon, and went on to become a businessman in real estate in 1922. He tried his hand at several careers before choosing to work in the biological field studying infectious diseases, gaining a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1930.
In 1954, while working at Children's Hospital Boston, Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".
Enders died in 1985 in Waterford, Connecticut, aged 88.
[edit] Honours
- 1953: Election to National Academy of Sciences
- 1953: Passano Award
- 1954: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1954:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1955: Charles V. Chapin Medal
- 1955: Gordon Wilson Medal
- 1958: Election to the Polio Hall of Fame at Warm Springs, Georgia
- 1961: TIME Man of the Year
- 1962: Robert Koch Medaille, Germany
- 1963: Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States
- 1967: Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
- 1981: Galen Medal of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, London.
Honorary doctoral degrees from thirteen universities..[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Weller/Robb p. 62
[edit] Further reading
- Thomas H. Weller and Frederick C. Robb: John Franklin Enders (1897 - 1985), A Biographical Memoir, Washington (D.C.), 1991 (NAS publication also online PDF)
- Katz, S L (2009). "John F. Enders and measles virus vaccine--a reminiscence". Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (Germany) 329: 3–11. ISSN 0070-217X. PMID 19198559.
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