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Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 was awarded jointly to John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"
Jun 11, 2024 · Thomas H. Weller was an American physician and virologist who was the corecipient (with John Enders and Frederick Robbins) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for the successful cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures.
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Thomas Huckle Weller. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954. Born: 15 June 1915, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Died: 23 August 2008, Needham, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
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Thomas Huckle Weller was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 15, 1915. The son and grandson of physicians, Weller exhibited an interest in natural science early in life, becoming an amateur ornithologist in his youth. He attended the University of Michigan, where his father, Carl Vernon Weller, was professor and chair of the pathology department. ...
Thomas H. Weller, was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with John F. Enders andFrederick C. Robbins"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." Weller began working in Enders's laboratory at Children's Hospital in Boston in 1947 and, with Enders's help, su...
E. Mead Johnson Award, 1953Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1955Member, National Academy of Science, 1964Nobel Prize biographyThe National Academy of Sciences biographical memoirNew York Times obituaryAug 27, 2008 · Thomas H. Weller, a tropical- medicine specialist whose tissue- culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible and won him a share in a Nobel Prize,...
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Apr 15, 2009 · Thomas Huckle Weller, Nobel Laureate (1954), member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and Bristol Awardee (1980), died on 23 August 2008 at the age of 93.
