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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1954

This Nobelprize.org website profiles the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing the poliovirus in a lab, which ultimately led to the development of the vaccine. Site contains biographies and complete Nobel lectures of John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins. Photos: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation, lectures Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1954.

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