Maddie.nhd.poliovaccine

The Path to The Polio Vaccine

By maddieaking27

  • John Enders is born.

  • Thomas Francis, Jr. is born.

  • Theodore Roosevelt takes office.

  • Albert Sabin is born.

  • William H. Taft takes office.

  • Woodrow Wilson takes office.

  • World War I starts.

  • Jonas Salk is born.

  • Thomas Weller is born.

  • Frederick Robbins is born.

  • Hilary Koprowski is born.

  • World War I ends.

  • Warren G. Harding takes office.

  • Calvin Coolidge takes office.

  • Herbert Hoover takes office.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office.

  • Jonas Salk graduates from NYU School of Medicine.

  • World War II starts.

  • Harry S Truman takes office.

  • World War II ends.

  • Hilary Koprowski concocts the first effective live-virus polio vaccine.

  • Jonas Salk announces development of a trial vaccine.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower takes office.

  • Enders, Robbins, and Weller win the Nobel Prize.

    Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1954; for their cultivation of the virus poliomyelitis.

  • Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is approved for use in the United States.

  • The Sabin Vaccine begins testing in the USSR.

  • John F. Kennedy takes office.

  • The Sabin vaccine is approved for use in the United States.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson takes office.

  • Richard Nixon takes office.

  • Thomas Francis, Jr. dies.

  • Gerald Ford takes office.

  • Jimmy Carter takes office.

  • Ronald Reagan takes office.

  • John Enders dies.

  • George H. W. Bush takes office.

  • Bill Clinton takes office.

  • Albert Sabin dies.

  • Jonas Salk dies.

  • George W. Bush takes office.

  • Frederick Robbins dies.

  • Thomas Weller dies.

  • Barack Obama takes office.

  • Hilary Koprowski dies.