Today is the 83rd anniversary of Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist who played an important role in the development of vaccine against polio.
After investigating virus outbreaks for the US Army during the Second World War, Robbins joined a research team at Children's Hospital Boston. In 1948, he found a way to grow the virus in the laboratory, using cells grown in a nutrient solution -. This discovery was the isolation and study of the virus much easier
In 1952, the group Robbins had successfully propagated the polio virus in mixtures of cells of the skin and muscles human embryonic. This culture system not only helped Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin produce vaccines against polio, but also shed light on how the polio attacks the body. He suggested that the virus infects other first tissue before it invades the brain and spinal cord. Robbins and colleagues John Franklin Enders and Thomas Weller received 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work
[Source: Britannica Online ].
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