Jonas Salk By hvalverde Oct 28, 1914 Birth Date Jonas salk was borrn on Ocrober 28, 1914 Period: Oct 28, 1914 to Jun 23, 1995 Jonas salk's life Oct 4, 1933 Jonas Salk go his college deggre at age 19 Nov 7, 1937 when Jonas Salk finished his intership he accepted a nationality reasearch and follwed frencis and together the two inved a killed virus vaccine Apr 7, 1944 in 1944 he was appointed reasearch associate epidemiology Jan 1, 1947 in 1947 jonas salk becamee the head of the virus reasearch lab (it did not say a specific date only the year) Aug 6, 1948 in 1948 Salk accepted a position at the university of pittsburg as associate professor of bacteriology Oct 4, 1948 in 1948 he undertook a project founded by the National foundation for infantile paralisis to determin to differen types of polio vaccines Oct 4, 1952 in 1952 he injected his wife and 3 sons with the vacine and proved it to be safe Oct 4, 1952 in 1952 Salk produces the polio vaccine Jun 23, 1995 Jonas salk died