Albert B. Sabin

✶August 26, 1906

†March 3, 1993

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Albert Bruce Sabin 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.

Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)

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