Laureate
John Franklin Enders
1897–1985 · United States · Male
Awards
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1954
Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
BiologyFor the cultivation of the viruses of poliomyelitis, mumps, and measles.
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1954
Nobel Prize — Medicine
Biologyfor their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue