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Health care tips  List of nobel prize winners 1954 nobel prize winner
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
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| Name - John Franklin Enders |
| Date of birth - February 10, 1897 |
| Institutions - Harvard Medical School; Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Cent
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| Country - USA |
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Description - John Franklin Enders was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders had been called "The Father of Modern vaccines."
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| Name - Thomas Huckle Weller |
| Date of birth - June 15, 1915 |
| Institutions - Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center
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| Country - USA |
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Description - Thomas Huckle Weller was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using tissue from a monkey.
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| Name - Frederick Chapman Robbins |
| Date of birth - August 25, 1916 |
| Institutions - Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA
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| Country - USA |
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Description - Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist.He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller.
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