John Franklin Enders
| John Franklin Enders | |
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| Born |
February 10, 1897 West Hartford, Connecticut |
| Died | September 8, 1985 (aged 88) Waterford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Harvard University |
| Known for | culturing poliovirus, isolating measlesvirus, developing measles vaccine |
| Notable awards |
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1954) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954) |
John Franklin Enders (February 10, 1897 – September 8, 1985) was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."
Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. His father, John Ostrom Enders, was CEO of the Hartford National Bank and left him a fortune of $19 million upon his death. He attended the Noah Webster School in Hartford, and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. After attending Yale University a short time, he joined the United States Army Air Corps in 1918 as a flight instructor and a lieutenant.
After returning from World War I, he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon. He went into real estate in 1922, and tried several careers before choosing the biomedical field with a focus on infectious diseases, gaining a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1930. He later joined the faculty at Children's Hospital Boston.
Enders died in 1985 in Waterford, Connecticut, aged 88, holding honorary doctoral degrees from 13 universities.
In 1949, Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins reported successful in vitro culture of an animal virus—poliovirus. The three received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the ability of polioviruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".
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