John Franklin Enders Ph.D.
John Franklin Enders Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954
Co-Nobelists Thomas H. Weller, Frederick C. Robbins
Name: John Franklin Enders
Birth: 10 February 1897, West Hartford, CT, USA
Death: 8 September 1985, Waterford, CT, USA
Institution: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Award: “for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”
Subject: virology
Portion of cash: 1/3
Doctoral Mentor: Hans Zinsser, Harvard Medical School. Thesis: evidence that bacterial anaphylaxis and hypersensitivity of tuberculin type are distinct phenomena. Tutee, Collaborator Thomas H. Weller, Co Nobelist
Collaborator: Frederick C. Robbins, Co Nobelist
Memorial to Advisor Zinsser: animated spontaneous conversation – literature, politics. Voltaire seemed around corner; Laurence Sterne upon the stair. Laboratory became way of life.
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