Coco Chanel

The House of Chanel in Paris, under Karl Lagerfeld, remains one of the top design houses today. The Salk Institute in La Jolla, California was named in Jonas Salk's honor. Chanel has been portrayed on the Broadway stage by Katharine Hepburn in a musical by Andre Previn and Alan Jay Lerner, and on screen by the French actress Marie-France Pisier. 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?". It is in the sky and on the road.". By contrast, Albert Sabin developed a "live" vaccine which was released in 1961, and which could be taken orally. One intuits it. Salk's vaccine rocked the world in 1954 when he first used it for the general public at Pittsburgh's Arsenal Elementary School.

Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. Dr. One of her common quotes is: "Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. The patient would develop immunity to the live disease due to the body's earlier reaction to the killed virus. However, she spent her latter years in Lausanne, Switzerland and is buried there in a tomb surrounded by five stone lions. Salk used a "killed" virus technique which required the patient to be injected with the vaccine. She maintained an apartment above her Rue Cambon establishment and also owned Villa La Pausa in the town of Roquebrune on the French Riviera. The vaccine provides the recipient with immunity against Polio, and was seminal in the near eradication of a once widely-feared disease.

For more than thirty years, Gabrielle Chanel made the Hôtel Ritz in Paris her home, even during the Nazi occupation of Paris, during which time she was criticized for taking a German military officer as a lover. His vaccine was one of the first successful attempts at immunization against a virus, specifically the Poliomyelitis virus. She never married. Later in his career, Salk devoted much of his energy to developing an AIDS vaccine. Chanel was set up in business by a lover, Etienne Balsan, a French textile heir, and her love affairs with the artist Paul Iribe, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, and British sportsman Boy Capel all had a considerable influence on the stylistic evolution of her often male-inspired fashions. He spent his career as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. (Other sources state that the her audiences cried "Coco" when they wanted an encore, while further sources state that the song was called "Ko Ko Ri Ko," French for "Cock-a-doodle-do."). Salk was born in New York City.

It was there that Chanel, then a cabaret singer, performed a song called "Qui qu'a vu Coco," and the name stuck. 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). The nickname Coco was evidently acquired at La Rotonde, a cafe frequented by members of a French cavalry regiment and numerous of the great artists who flocked to Paris' Montparnasse section at the turn of the 20th century. In 1923, she told Harper's Bazaar that "simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.". Although unassuming black dresses existed before Chanel, the ones she designed were considered the haute couture standard.

She also popularized the little black dress, whose blank-slate versatility allowed it to be worn for day and evening, depending on how it was accessorized. 5 perfume, launched in 1923, and the influential Chanel suit, an elegant suit comprised of a knee-length skirt and trim, boxy jacket, traditionally made of woven wool with black trim and gold buttons and worn with large costume-pearl necklaces. Two of her most famous creations are Chanel No. Her influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on the List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

In 1909 Coco Chanel opened a shop in Paris selling ladies hats and within a year moved the business to the fashionable Rue Cambon. Shortly after her birth, her father abandoned the family and the Chanel children were then placed in the care of relatives and spent some time in an orphanage. Popularly known as Coco Chanel or "Mademoiselle" by her inner circle, she was born in the small city of Saumur, France. Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971) was a pioneering French couturier whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion design.