John Franklin Enders
John Franklin Enders. American bacteriologist. PhD from Harvard University in 1930 . Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1954 .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical summary
- 1 Professional career
- 2 Death
- 2 Awards and recognitions
- 3 Legacy
- 4 Sources
Biographical summary
He was born on February 10 , 1897 in West Hartford, Connecticut , ( United States ). He studied at Yale and Harvard Universities.
Career path
He joined the Harvard Medical School in 1929. Graduated from Harvard University in 1930, he joined the United States Air Force during World War II , working as an epidemiologist. He began to join the department. of infectious diseases research at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1946 .
In 1949 , together with Thomas H. Weller and Frederick C. Robbins , who shared with him the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1954 , they devised a method to multiply the poliovirus on non-nervous epithelial and muscle tissues (until then only it had been possible to grow on nervous tissue, which is practically impossible to maintain in laboratory conditions) which allowed the obtaining of the anti-polio vaccine in 1952 , as well as a vaccine against measles in 1964 .
In 1962 he was appointed professor at Harvard and until he was 80 he continued working in the laboratories of the Boston Children’s Center.
Death
He died on September 8 , 1985 , at his residence in Connecticut (United States), at the age of 88.
Awards and honours
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1954 for his research on the polio vaccine; recognition that he shared with his collaborators Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins .
He was the recipient of numerous awards and decorations, including the Lasker Foundation and Pessano Foundation awards, and in 1963 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Legacy
Enders trained several generations of experts in the field of epidemic disease research, who today occupy positions of great importance in world medicine.