Like Salk, Sabin attended medical school at New York University, and after graduating in 1931, he began research on the causes of polio. After a research stint at the Rockefeller Institute, ...

Below the surface, it was a rivalry between two brilliant men, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. Sabin was the more experienced researcher. Eight years older than Salk, he was the head of pediatric ...

Like Salk, Sabin attended medical school at New York University, and after graduating in 1931, he began research on the causes of polio. After a research stint at the Rockefeller Institute, ...

The Sabin oral polio vaccine was put into widespread use in the U.S. in 1962. It was easier to administer and eventually supplanted the Salk vaccine.

In January, 1955, Albert B. Sabin inoculated 30 volunteers at Ohio's Chillicothe Reformatory, with a weakened strain of live polio virus. Just three months later, Jonas E. Salk announced that he ...

In 1961, Sabin’s oral vaccine supplanted Salk’s shots nationwide. Later, in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention switched the recommended vaccine back to the Salk version ...

Neither Jonas Salk nor Albert Sabin pursued patents and Dr. Sabin only got his regular salary. The sky didn’t fall on anybody.

In 1961, Sabin’s oral vaccine supplanted Salk’s shots nationwide. Later, in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention switched the recommended vaccine back to the Salk version ...

Frederick C. Robbins isolated and grew the poliovirus, which allowed Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin to develop the first successful polio vaccines. While a professor of pediatrics at the School of ...