The biography of alfred sabine
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Albert Sabin
Polish-American medical researcher (–)
Albert Bruce Sabin (SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, – March 3, ) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In –72, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Biography
[edit]Abram Saperstejn was born in Białystok, Russian Empire (before and since in Poland), to Polish-Jewish parents, Jacob Saperstejn and Tillie Krugman.[1] In ,[2] he emigrated with his family on the SS Lapland which sailed from Antwerp to the Port of New York. In , he became a naturalized citizen of the United States and changed his name to Albert Bruce Sabin. He graduated from high school in Paterson, New Jersey.[3]
Sabin began university in a dentistry program, but was interested in virology and changed majors. He received a bachelor's grad in science in and a
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When Alfred Sabin was born on 21 April , in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Sabin, was 59 and his mother, Sarah Greatorex, was He married Sarah Ann Francies on 16 February , in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Leicester St Margaret, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom for about 30 years and Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died on 1 May , in Holbrook, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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The Legacy of Dr. Albert B. Sabin
About Dr. Albert
Dr. Sabin was born on August 26, , in Bialystok, Poland. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in in order to avoid the persecutions directed against Jews.
Dr. Sabin’s Contributions to Medicine
He received his M.D. from New York University in and immediately began research on polio, an acute viral infection that can cause death or paralysis and which had, at the time, reached epidemic proportions around the globe.
After the start of World War II, he joined the U.S. Army Epidemiological Board&#;s Virus Committee and accepted assignments in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific. During this phase of his career, Dr. Sabin developed vaccines for encephalitis (sleeping sickness), sand-fly fever, and dengue fever.
Following the war, he returned to his focus on polio. While developing their vaccine, Dr. Sabin and his research associates ingested the avirulent (live but weakened) viruses themselves before