Polio Hall of Fame

The Polio Hall of Fame - even Polio Wall of Fame - is a collection of seventeen bronze busts of those who researching the poliomyelitis advanced or allows. It is located on the outer wall of the Founders' Hall at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia, United States.

Emergence of the monument

The busts were created by the American sculptor Edmond Romulus Amateis on behalf of the Warm Springs Foundation. On January 2, 1958, the busts were unveiled in a ceremony attended by the sculptor and almost all the people still living. Occasion of the celebration was the 20th anniversary of the National Foundation for polio. The Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt widow took part in the ceremony. A detailed description of the unveiling ceremony with photos of the artist and the people involved has released the biographer of Charles Armstrong Edward A. Beeman.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Warm Springs

The U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt talked regularly since 1924 in the spa town of Warm Springs and died here in 1945, he was in 1921 suffering from a paralysis of the legs, which was regarded as poliomyelitis. ; according to recent research, it was the then little-known Guillain -Barré syndrome. Roosevelt founded in 1927, the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, whose main task should be initially the treatment of poliomyelitis. Today, the establishment Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation ie and cared for in twenty-six different departments patients with disabilities of all kinds

Immortalized Significant polio researchers

The first fifteen of the seventeen bronze busts show fourteen men and a woman were involved in the research and treatment of polio. The two persons are Roosevelt and his close collaborator Basil O'Connor on the right. The order of the busts after the first four is not continuous chronologically.

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The four Europeans Heine, Medin, Wickman and Landsteiner (left to right )

Jakob Heine ( Germany )

Karl Oskar Medin (Sweden)

Ivar Wickman (Sweden)

Karl Landsteiner ( Austria )