Thomas Huckle Weller

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954

“for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue”

Thomas Huckle Weller was an American virologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for discovering the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue. This work contributed to the development of polio vaccines.