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Thomas Francis Jr. (July 15, 1900 – October 1, 1969) was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist who guided the discovery and development of the polio vaccine being worked on by his student Jonas Salk.
Jul 11, 2024 · Thomas Francis, Jr. (born July 15, 1900, Gas City, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1969, Ann Arbor, Mich.) was an American microbiologist and epidemiologist who isolated the viruses responsible for influenza A (1934) and influenza B (1940) and developed a polyvalent vaccine effective against both strains.
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It was April 12, 1955, and Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, was announcing to the world that the vaccine, developed by his former student Jonas Salk, was protective of paralytic polio.
Thomas Francis, Jr. (1900–1969), was the thirty-third president of the American Association of Immunologists, serving from 1949 to 1950. He was the Henry Sewall University Professor and chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the University of Michigan School of Public Health from 1941 to 1969. Francis gained renown for his studies on ...
Thomas Francis, Jr. — a man and a career, an influence and a personality. a human being and a person — still symbolizes all these for those who knew him as a man with a spirit that truly moved mountains.
Apr 12, 2021 · On the morning of April 12, 1955, an epidemiologist named Thomas Francis, Jr., took the stage of the Rackham Auditorium, at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
This article focuses on the poliomyelitis vaccine field trial directed by Thomas Francis, Jr, MD, of the University of Michigan Vaccine Evaluation Center and sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) or, as it was better known to the public, the March of Dimes.
