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You Can't Patent the Sun Meg Gifford

Born to Jewish immigrant parents in one of the most underprivileged neighborhoods in New York, Jonas Salk experienced lifelong antisemitism. After a short course in virology he gave up political aspirations to enter a field that was neither nurturing of new ideologies nor of Jewish researchers. Despite the obstacles before him, he never abandoned his vision of developing a vaccine that would effectively wipe out the polio epidemic and change scientific viewpoints in developing vaccinations forever.

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Writer: Meg Gifford

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 Biology

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