Jonas Salk

      On October 28,1914 in New York City, the famous Jonas Salk was born.Early life for Jonas Salk wasn’t very easy considering his parents never really had a proper education.Jonas Salk’s parents highly encouraged their son to study hard even though they had no formal education and were just gormet workers.Jonas Salk never got proper education, but he managed to succeed.“In 1942 he began working for a former teacher, Thomas Francis, Jr., to produce influenza (flu) vaccines, a project that continued until 1949.” “In addition to building a successful laboratory, Salk also devoted a considerable amount of time to writing scientific papers on a number of topics including the virus that causes poliomyelitis (known simply as Polio).” “Salk devoted a large amount of his energies to writing scientific papers on the polio vaccine.” From 1940 to 1942 Jonas Salk assisted in the development of an influenza vaccine. In 1943 Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis Jr. had developed the killed virus vaccine which was effective for both type A and type B influenza.  “He saved millions of lives by creating the first vaccine to eliminate polio, bringing an end to the epidemic that killed and paralyzed thousands.”
         Jonas Salk had a very wonderful education with the help of his parents who encouraged him each and every day. “He attended grade school in New York Public Schools, but later went to Townsend Harns High School for exceptional studies.” At the age of 15 Jonas Salk graduated from Townsend Harns High School for Gifted Students. “Jonas Salk was still a student when he began to look for a better answer to his classroom question, and the answer he found led to one of the most dramatic breakthroughs in the History of Medicine.” Salk started school as a law student but changed to pre-med in his sophomore year. In the 1930’s when Jonas Salk was just a medical student at New York University he began research on viruses; and in the 1940’s he assisted in the development of flu vaccines at the University of Michigan.   “Salk graduated with a bachelor’s degree in science in 1933, at the age of nineteen, and went on to New York University’s School of Medicine.” “He graduated from City College of New York in 1933 and received his medical degree from New York University in 1939.” “Salk completed his medical Internship at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City from 1940 to 1942.”  In Salk’s later years of life he was still doing research on diseases and writing books.
         “Salk died of heart failure at the age of 80 at Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic In La Jolla, California, on June 23, 1995.” “ Salk’s work before his death included research on the Aid’s virus: his eldest son Peter, worked with him.” ”During the 1970’s, Salk turned to writing, producing books about the philosophy of science and it’s social role.” In the 1980’s Salk started research for a vaccine that would prevent Aid’s and HIV by boosting their immune system. In Salk’s later years of life he was fascinated with the theory that stated that humans could control their on evolution.“ Jonas Salk theorized that evolution is not merely a phenomenon people experience, but rather a force that evolved people like himself were capable of actually guiding.” “ In the last years of his life he continued his immunological research at the Salk Institute on multiple sclerosis and cancer.”



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