“As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.”

—  Jonas Salk

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

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Inventor of polio vaccine 1914–1995

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