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Thomas Francis Jr. (July 15, 1900 – October 1, 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk.
Thomas Francis, Jr. (born July 15, 1900, Gas City, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1969, Ann Arbor, Mich.) was an American microbiologist and epidemiologist who isolated the viruses responsible for influenza A (1934) and influenza B (1940) and developed a polyvalent vaccine effective against both strains.
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26 de ago. de 2020 · En 1940, Thomas Francis Jr. crea la primera vacuna contra la gripe en colaboración con Jonas Salk, que en 1954 recibió el Premio Nobel junto a Albert Sabin, por haber descubierto la vacuna contra la poliomelitis.
17 de sept. de 2020 · Tres años más tarde, el médico y virólogo especialista en epidemiología, Thomas Francis Jr., consiguió aislar el virus de la influenza B y ese mismo año el científico Burnet descubrió que se...
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10 de ago. de 2021 · El médico, virólogo y epidemiólogo estadounidense Thomas Francis Jr. fue el creador de la primera vacuna contra la gripe, en colaboración con el investigador médico norteamericano Jonas Salk...
It was April 12, 1955, and Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, was announcing to the world that the vaccine, developed by his former student Jonas Salk, was protective of paralytic polio.
13 de mar. de 2023 · When Dr Thomas Francis Jr said those famous words in 1955 – “the vaccine is safe, effective and potent” – polio still killed and paralysed millions of people around the world, including in the US.
