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Jonas Salk

1914 - 1995

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Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine. In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine the number of different types of poliovirus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonas Salk has received more than 4,202,678 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Jonas Salk is the 111th most popular physician (down from 86th in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from United States (down from 627th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Physician.

Jonas Salk is most famous for developing the polio vaccine.

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  • 77

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  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jonas Salk ranks 111 out of 726. Before him are Jens Christian Skou, Frederick Chapman Robbins, James Parkinson, Ronald Ross, Eric Kandel, and Ulf von Euler. After him are Andrew Schally, Arvid Carlsson, Friedrich Miescher, Niels Kaj Jerne, Ryke Geerd Hamer, and Santorio Santorio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jonas Salk ranks 29. Before him are Aribert Heim, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Karl Carstens, Joe DiMaggio, Raymond Davis Jr., and Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani. After him are Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Philippe Ariès, Desmond Llewelyn, Etty Hillesum, Gino Bartali, and William Vickrey. Among people deceased in 1995, Jonas Salk ranks 28. Before him are Lana Turner, Murray Rothbard, Donald Pleasence, Milovan Đilas, Souphanouvong, and William Alfred Fowler. After him are Alec Douglas-Home, Ginger Rogers, Fred Perry, John B. Calhoun, Hugo Pratt, and Christian B. Anfinsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jonas Salk ranks 824 out of 20,380. Before him are William H. Macy (1950), Philip Glass (1937), Arthur Ashkin (1922), William Howard Stein (1911), Robert Downey Jr. (1965), and Samuel Barber (1910). After him are Howard Hawks (1896), Nikki Sixx (1958), Tim Robbins (1958), Dick Fosbury (1947), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), and Michael Bloomberg (1942).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Jonas Salk ranks 10. Before him are Ferid Murad (1936), Stanley Cohen (1922), George Minot (1885), Haldan Keffer Hartline (1903), William T. G. Morton (1819), and Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916). After him are Francis Peyton Rous (1879), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Joseph Erlanger (1874), Harvey J. Alter (1935), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), and George H. Hitchings (1905).

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