Jonas Salk
1914 – 1995 · United States · Medicine
Polio vaccine, unpatented — 'could you patent the sun?'
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- Edward Jenner
1749 – 1823 · Medicine
Mass immunisation as public policy begins with the smallpox vaccine.
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