Jonas Salk

The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California was named in Jonas Salk's honor.
. Unlike some scientists who sought wealth or fame accompanying their innovations, Salk stated "Who owns my polio vaccine? The people! Could you patent the sun?".
. By contrast, Albert Sabin developed a "live" vaccine which was released in 1961, and which could be taken orally.
. Salk's vaccine rocked the world in 1954 when he first used it for the general public at Pittsburgh's Arsenal Elementary School. He was interred in Morningside Cemetery.

Dr. He retired from public life and active business pursuits because of ill health, and died in Malone. The patient would develop immunity to the live disease due to the body's earlier reaction to the killed virus. He was inaugurated in March 1877 and served until March 1881. Salk used a "killed" virus technique which required the patient to be injected with the vaccine. Hayes in 1876. The vaccine provides the recipient with immunity against Polio, and was seminal in the near eradication of a once widely-feared disease. He was elected on the Republican ticket with Rutherford B.

His vaccine was one of the first successful attempts at immunization against a virus, specifically the Poliomyelitis virus. Wheeler was not a candidate for reelection, having been nominated in 1876 as the Republican candidate for Vice President. Later in his career, Salk devoted much of his energy to developing an AIDS vaccine. He was a delegate to the state constitutional conventions in 1867 and 1868, and was elected to the Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1877). He spent his career as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861 - March 3, 1863). Salk was born in New York City. He was a member of the state Assembly in 1850 and 1851 and a member of the state Senate from 1858 to 1860.

Jonas Salk, M.D. (October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995) is the discoverer/inventor of the eponymous Salk vaccine while a researcher in Pittsburgh (see polio vaccine). He was district attorney for Franklin County from 1846 to 1849. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced in Malone. Wheeler was born in Malone, Franklin County, New York, and attended the University of Vermont. William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819–June 4, 1887) was a Representative from New York and the nineteenth Vice President of the United States.