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“My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.”

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Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk was a renowned medical researcher, best known for his contributions to vaccine development. His most famous achievement was the invention of the polio vaccine, which significantly reduced the incidence of the disease. more

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Book:The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England
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Author:Humphry Davy
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