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Name: Albert Bruce Sabin
Birth Date: August 26, 1906
Death Date: March 3, 1993
Place of Birth: Bialystok, Poland
Place of Death: Washington, DC, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physician, virologist

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Biography of Albert Bruce Sabin
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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...
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Biography of Albert Bruce Sabin
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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...
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Biography of Albert Sabin
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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,...
 


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Albert Bruce Sabin Summary
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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...
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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 BiaƂystok, Russia (now Poland), to...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Dr. Albert Sabin, was developer of the oral polio vaccine; at 86
03/04/1993: 745 words, approx. 3 pages
WASHINGTON -- Health pioneer Albert Sabin, the immigrant whose oral vaccine helped to all but eliminate the scourge of crippling polio in the industrialized world, died yesterday in Georgetown University Medical Center of congestive heart failure. He was 86. "His accomplishments in the...
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The Washington Post
Polio Pioneer Albert Sabin Dies;Oral Vaccine Helped Halt Disease's Spread
03/04/1993: 826 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
 


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