Researchers who turned microbiology into protection and cure: Salk and Sabin with the polio vaccines, Behring with diphtheria antitoxin, Calmette with the BCG vaccine, Fleming with penicillin and Schatz with streptomycin. A person belongs here when the cited article describes the development of a vaccine, antitoxin or antibiotic. It excludes discoverers of pathogens and theorists of immunity. A researcher who discovered a pathogen but never made a vaccine or drug sits with the bacteriologists, and a theorist of immunity sits with the immunologists.
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Max Theiler (Wikipedia)
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for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937
Albert Calmette - Wikipedia
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He co-discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of Mycobacterium bovis used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis.
Albert Sabin (Wikipedia)
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Albert Bruce Sabin ( SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906, March 3, 1993) 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.
Albert Schatz (Wikipedia)
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Albert Israel Schatz (2 February 1920-17 January 2005) was an American microbiologist and academic who discovered streptomycin, the first antibiotic known to be effective for the treatment of tuberculosis.
Alexander Fleming (Wikipedia)
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He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
Wikipedia: Emil von Behring
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In 1901, he received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths".
Jonas Salk (Wikipedia)
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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.
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