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Albert B. Sabin
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Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)
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Albert B. Sabin was an American virologist, pathologist, university teacher, and inventor. Born in Białystok in 1906, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the United States. His field of work was immunology, and his notable work includes the polio vaccine. Sabin served as a chairperson and was employed by the University of South Carolina and the University of Cincinnati. He also worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Sabin was educated at New York University and the Grossman School of Medicine. He participated in World War II. His academic affiliations included the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. He received the Bavarian Order of Merit, the National Medal of Science, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sabin died of heart failure in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 1993. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His published works include *Viruses and cancer* and *The Arabs need and want peace, but -*.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1906
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The Arabs need and want peace, but -
- Śiḥot be-Yarden uve-Mitsrayim
- Nutrition as a factor in the development of constitutional barriers to involvement of the nervous system by certain viruses
- Viruses and cancer
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,784x
- G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 54,672x
- Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
· 1977 · cited 50,563x
- Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 31,402x
- Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
· 1999 · cited 28,082x
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Key facts
- Born
- Abram Saperstejn , ( 1906-08-26 ) August 26, 1906, Białystok , Russian Empire , (now Poland )
- Died
- March 3, 1993 (1993-03-03) (aged 86), Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Poland (until 1930), US (since 1930)
- Alma mater
- New York University ( BS , MD )
- Known for
- Oral polio vaccine
- Spouses
- Sylvia Tregillus ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1935 ; died 1966 ) Jane Warner (died 2002) ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1971 ) Heloisa Dunshee de Abranches ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ) (died 2016)
- Awards
- E. Mead Johnson Award (1941), National Medal of Science (1970), John Howland Award (1974), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1986)
- Fields
- Immunology , virology
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Official website
Sabin Vaccine Institute | Extending Vaccine Accessibility & Innovation
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Encyclopedic overview
Albert Bruce Sabin (/ˈseɪbɪn/ SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Biography
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