biography
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Weller, Thomas H(uckle)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1915– )
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He studied at Harvard and Michigan universities, then served in World War 2 as an army medical researcher into tropical diseases. After the War he joined the Children's Medical Center in Boston, where he worked with John Enders and Frederick Robbins devising techniques for cultivating the poliomyelitis virus (thus making possible the development of a polio vaccine), for which they shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He also isolated the causative agents of chicken pox and shingles, and rubella (German measles). |
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