The Polish-American physician and virologist Albert Bruce Sabin (1906-1993) developed the first effective and widely used live virus polio vaccine. Born in August 26, 1906, in Bialystok, Poland, Sabin emigrated to the United States with his parents in...

Albert Sabin was born on August 26, 1906 in Bialystock, Poland (then Russia) and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1921. He attended New York University, received his medical degree in 1931, and began research on the virus that causes...

Albert Sabin, a noted virologist, developed an oral vaccine for polio that led to the once-dreaded disease's virtual extinction in the Western Hemisphere. Sabin's long and distinguished research career included many major contributions to virology,...

1906-1993 Polish-American Microbiologist Albert Sabin is best known for his pioneering research on poliomyelitis ("infantile paralysis") and his development of an orally administered live attenuated vaccine for the prevention of the...

Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish ancestry who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for polio. Born in 1906 in Białystok, Russia (now Poland), to...

Albert B. Sabin, 86, who developed the oral vaccine for poliomyelitis, died of congestive heart failure yesterday at Georgetown University Medical Center. It was estimated that by the time of his death about 5 million cases of polio and 500,000 deaths had been...

Professor Albert Sabin, the developer of the oral polio vaccine, recently received the 110 million Italian Lira International Abano Terme Quality of Life Prize and the 10 million Samremo Laboratorio Farmaceutico CT Prize. Sabin received these awards in recognition of the many millions...