John F. Enders' research on viruses and his advances in tissue culture enabled microbiologists Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk to develop their vaccines against polio, a major crippler of children in the first half of the twentieth century. His work also...

John F. Enders' research on viruses and his advances in tissue culture enabled microbiologists Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk to develop vaccines against polio, a major crippler of children in the first half of the twentieth century. Enders' work also...

John Carew Eccles was a neurophysiologist whose research explained how nerve cells communicate with one another. He demonstrated that when a nerve cell is stimulated it releases a chemical that binds to the membrane of neighboring cells and activates...

John Carew Eccles was a neurophysiologist whose research explained how nerve cells communicate with one another. He demonstrated that when a nerve cell is stimulated it releases a chemical that binds to the membrane of neighboring cells and activates...

The Australian neurophysiologist Sir John Carew Eccles (1903-1997) made a series of original contributions to the knowledge of how nerve cells communicate with each other. John Carew Eccles was born in Melbourne, Australia, on January 27, 1903, the...

In 1962, John Carew Eccles was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, an award he shared with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley for their research in the mechanisms of control and communication between nerve cells. Born in Melbourne on...

John Franklin Enders was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale University in 1920. After beginning a career as a real estate agent, Enders decided that business was not for him and enrolled at Harvard University, completing a master's degree in...

John Franklin Enders was born in Connecticut and graduated from Yale University in 1920. After beginning a career as a real estate agent, Enders decided that business was not for him and enrolled at Harvard University, completing a master's degree in...