Dr lee salk biography
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Lee Salk
American physician (1926–1992)
Lee Salk (died May 2, 1992) was an American child psychologist and author who is credited with discovering the calming effect the sound of a heartbeat has on infants.[1]
During the last third of his life, Salk made a great deal of public appearances on various television shows and lecture halls. He used these venues to dispense advice on how to rear children, especially infants.[2]
Early life
[edit]Salk was the younger son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Dora (Press) and Daniel Salk. He was born and reared in New York. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, was his older brother.[1][2]
Salk attended the University of Michigan.[1]
Professional work
[edit]Salk's published work investigated the effect of retirement on mortality,[3] the effect of the mother's heartbeat on the newborn,[4] and the relationship between adverse maternal and perinatal conditions and
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Jonas Salk
American inventor of the polio vaccine (1914–1995)
"Salk" redirects here. For other uses, see Salk (disambiguation).
Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine.[2]
In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine the number of different types of poliovirus. For the next seven years, Salk devoted himself to developing a vaccine against polio.
Salk was immediately hailed as a "miracle worker" when the vaccine's success was first made public in April 1955, and chose to not patent the vaccine or seek any profit from it in order to maximize its global distribution.[2] The National Fou
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Jonas Salk, M.D.
So, it started with you doubting something that everyone else assumed was true?
Jonas Salk: inom didn’t doubt it. inom just questioned the logic of it, the reasonableness of it, when other people accepted it. inom just didn’t accept what appeared to me to be a dogmatic assertion in view of the fact that there was a reason to think otherwise. So that it was not merely doubting a belief, there was a principle involved. inom try to understand the laws of nature, the principles that are involved, and that’s what I’ve attempted to do ever since then, in the development of what inom think of as the science of vaccinology, which had not been a science prior thereto. inom entered medicin with the idea of bringing science into medicin. I had the opportunity to investigate this question scientifically, thinking and working as a scientist.
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