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Salk
[ sawk, sawlk ]
noun
- Jonas E(dward), 1914–95, U.S. bacteriologist: developed Salk vaccine.
Salk
/ ɔː /
noun
- SalkJonas Edward19141995MUSSCIENCE: virologist Jonas Edward. 1914–95, US virologist: developed an injected vaccine against poliomyelitis (1954)
Salk
- American microbiologist who in 1954 developed the first effective vaccine against polio, using an inactivated form of the virus. Salk's vaccine, which was administered by injection, was widely used until 1959 when Albert Sabin introduced an orally administered vaccine derived from a live form of the virus.
Example Sentences
I suspect that none of the parents who volunteered for Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine trial were hoping their children were in the placebo group.
A new study from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has identified a brain circuit that slows the breath to calm the mind.
Before Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine in the mid-1950s, the disease killed or paralyzed more than half a million people around the world each year.
"His whole commitment was protecting the population from infectious diseases," Salk said.
Neuroscientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have identified a brain pathway that instantly deflates anxiety.
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