Albert Sabin
Albert B. Sabin ( born August 26, 1906 in Białystok (then Russian Empire, today Poland), † March 3, 1993 in Washington, DC) was a physician and virologist. He developed the oral vaccine against poliomyelitis (polio ) on the basis of preliminary work by Jonas Salk.
Sabin was born on 26 August 1906 as Albert Saperstein into a Jewish family in Białystok in the former Russian Empire; his birthplace is now in Poland. 1920/21, he emigrated with his family to the U.S. and changed his name to Sabin. He studied medicine at New York University and graduated in 1931 with the Medical Doctor (MD ) from. In 1930, he acquired American citizenship.
From 1935 to 1939 Sabin worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In 1939 he was appointed professor of pediatrics and pediatric research at the University of Cincinnati. He worked there until 1969. 1960 which he developed oral vaccine against polio after successful preliminary trials was first used on a large scale. This is now regarded as his greatest scientific achievement.
Later his scientific work Sabin led to the Weizmann Institute ( 1970-72 ), at the National Cancer Institute (1974) and the Medical University of South Carolina ( 1974-82 ).
The last stop of his scientific career was the Fogarty International Center for Advanced Studies in the Health Sciences, a National Institutes of Health ( NIH) belonging facility. He worked there until 1986, full-time, 1988, he finally went into retirement.