“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”
John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954, together with Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins, for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue. This discovery helped make the development of polio vaccines possible.
- Field
- Biology · Virology
- Lifespan
- 1897–1985