- Nacimiento
- Defunción23 de junio de 1995 · La Jolla, California, Estados Unidos (un insuficiencia cardíaca)
- Nombre de nacimientoJonas Edward Salk
- Jonas Salk nació el 28 de octubre de 1914 en Nueva York, Nueva York, EE.UU.. Fue un escritor, conocido por Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum (2019), Louis Kahn: Silence and Light (1996) y The Levin Interviews (1980). Estuvo casado con Françoise Gilot y Donna Lindsay. Murió el 23 de junio de 1995 en La Jolla, California, EE.UU..
- CónyugesFrançoise Gilot(29 de junio de 1970 - 23 de junio de 1995) (su muerte)Donna Lindsay(9 de junio de 1939 - 1968) (divorciado, 3 niños)
- Niños
- Developed the polio vaccine. Salk never patented it nor earned any money from his discovery, preferring to see it distributed as widely as possible. He injected his wife, their sons and himself during the experimental stages of his vaccine.
- His second wife, Françoise Gilot, was the longtime companion of Pablo Picasso.
- Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
- Brother of Dr. Lee Salk, a distinguished specialist in neuromuscular diseases.
- Engaged in a four decade long rivalry with Dr. Albert Sabin. Sabin's live oral polio vaccine was developed at about the same time as Salk's injected killed virus vaccine, and the debate rages on over which vaccine has been more effective in combating polio in the long run.
- Asked who owned the patent on his vaccine: "The people, I suppose. Could you patent the sun?"
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