Word: passano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said in accepting the Passano Award in 1953 for culturing polio viruses in living tissues...
...Nobel Prize of $28,086 awarded by the Caroline Institute followed on only somewhat less distinguished recognition. In June of 1953, Enders received the Passano, and last tall he was cited for "distinguished achievements in the cultivation of viruses," and given the Lasker Foundation Aware. Finally, last October he was sitting in his office being quizzed over the telephone by the Boston Globe's suspicious science writer, Frances Burns when word first come through that he and his two associated would receive the outstanding science award of the year. "Wait a second," Miss Burns said. "It's coming over...