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Encyclopedia > John Franklin Enders

John Franklin Enders (February 10, 18871985) was an American medical scientist. February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Yale for a short time before entering the United States Air Force in 1918. After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key, and went on to become a businessman in the area of real estate in 1922. He tried his hand at a few different careers before choosing to work in the biological field studying infectious diseases. Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue". John Franklin Enders died in 1985. West Hartford is a town located in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society that was established by John Addison Porter at Yale University in 1842. ... Dr. Thomas Huckle Weller (born June 15, 1915) was an American virologist. ... Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916-2003) was a Nobel laureate in Medicine and Physiology in 1956 along with Enders and Weller. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...


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  • http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1954/enders-bio.html


 

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