John Franklin Enders
John Franklin Enders (February 10 1897 – September 8 1985) was an American medical scientist and Nobel laureate.
Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut and was educated at the Noah Webster School at Hartford and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He then attended Yale University for a short time before entering the United States Air Force in 1918.
After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Scroll and Key as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon, and went on to become a businessman in real estate in 1922. He tried his hand at several careers before choosing to work in the biological field studying infectious diseases, gaining a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1930.
In 1954, while working at Children's Hospital Boston, Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".
Enders died in 1985 in Waterford, Connecticut, aged 88.
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| Preceded by Dwight Eisenhower |
Time's Men of the Year(Alongside Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Joshua Lederberg, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segrè, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell representing U.S. Scientists) 1960 |
Succeeded by John F. Kennedy |
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- 1887 births
- 1985 deaths
- St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) alumni
- American businesspeople
- American scientists
- Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- Harvard University alumni
- Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine
- People from West Hartford, Connecticut
- Yale University alumni
- Poliomyelitis
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