Jonas Salk: A Life
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780199334414
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Jonas SalkPolio vaccine developmentMedical research history
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2015)
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