Family Life He was married to his second wife Françoise Gilot from 1970 until his death in 1995. He had five sons and one daughter. Associated With He developed the first effective vaccine for polio, a disease which most notably affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Popularity...
Jonas Salk. Writer: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. Jonas Salk was born on 28 October 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (2019), Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996) and The Levin Int
In 1953, Salk administered the experimental vaccine to himself, his wife and sons. Salk's efforts were supported and promoted by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its president Basil O'Connor. When the vaccine was approved for general use in 1955, Salk became a national hero....
Salk tested the cure out on his wife, and their 3 sons. The amount of polio cases dramatically dropped from 28,985 in 1955 to 5,894 in 1957. He had a huge impact on our worlds death rates. Soon after his research for Aids, Salk died, but his method of vaccinations Get Access...
began testing his polio vaccine on children on July 2, 1952. In one of the largest medical tests in history, nearly 2 million young “polio pioneers” were injected with the vaccine over the next two years. In 1953, Salk tested the still-experimental vaccine on himself and his wife and ...
If Francoise Gilot considers herself a handmaiden of fate, as biographers say, then destiny showed her its own hand particularly early on. And if Gilot has found a degree of double-edged fame because of her relationships--first with Picasso, and now as the wife of Dr. Jonas Salk--her fir...