Jonas Salk: A Life

by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

Book Overview

When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon--a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199334412
• ISBN13: 9780199334414
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"