Jonas Salk was an American physician and virologist who developed the first safe and effective inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Introduced in 1955, the vaccine dramatically reduced cases of polio worldwide. Salk declined to patent his invention, making it widely available, and later founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California.
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