October 28, 2014

Celebrating Jonas Salk



Today's Google Doodle honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the first polio vaccine, and the reason we have our neighbor, the Salk Institute.

With Dr. Salk's breakthrough on the polio vaccine the number of new polio cases in the U.S. and the world dropped dramatically. He even refused to patent it.

Read more about this historic moment in time from a UCSD alumni who got the chance to meet Dr. Salk.

Other articles:
Celebrating Jonas Salk's 'big life'

Jonas Salk: The man behind the science

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