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...five Americans and two Germans. The prize for physics went to German Professors Max Born and Walter Bothe (who was ailing in a West German hospital). To a three-man polio research team-Cleveland's Dr. Frederick Robbins, Harvard's Drs. John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller-the King presented the award for medicine. The California Institute of Technology's Dr. Linus Pauling was on hand to get the prize for chemistry, heard himself praised for working on the "frontiers of science" in exploring the nature of chemical bonds. Asked later how his Nobel money would...
...crowd of 1300 European notables gave a standing ovation to John F. Eaders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and Thomas H. Weller, Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, for their polio virus discoveries which are the stepping-stone to a polio vaccine...
Enders and Weller did know, however, that at least one virus chicken-pox-had bten grown in a test-tube. And the polio virus, was, they noted, similar in many ways to chicken...
Although conclusive evidence of the effectiveness of the Salk Vaccine has not been established, there is not doubt of the success of the enders-Weller-Robbins venture. Repeated evidence shows that the tissue culture method will now be applied to increasingly expanded field of virus research. It was for this wide reaching possibility that Weller and Robbins jointly received the Mead Johnson Award of 1953- for "the development of the tissue culture method will now betion to the field of virus diseases...
...have Enders and Weller yet reached the limits on research with tissue culture methods. Ender now believes he has isolated the measles virus--by using the same basic process...