Frederick Chapman Robbins

Frederick Chapman Robbins ( born August 25, 1916 in Auburn, Alabama, USA; † August 4, 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) was an American microbiologist and physician. He received in 1954 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Life

Robbins was born the son of the two Botany professors William J. and Christine Robbins. He decided early on in the medicine and took after his high school graduation to study at the University of Missouri on. In 1938 he received a Bachelor 's degree and continued his studies at Harvard Medical School continuing. In 1940 he was hired as a bacteriologist at the Central Children's Hospital in Boston. During the Second World War he worked in Army services to the treatment of hepatitis B, typhoid fever and Q fever.

After his marriage to Alice Northrop, he continued his work at Children's Hospital and joined the research group of John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and which dealt with infectious diseases. Here one has been able to produce crops with poliovirus. This led to the creation of a vaccine for polio. For this he received along with Enders and Weller 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Until his death on 4 August 2003, he worked as a professor ( emeritus ) of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ( Cleveland). He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.