Thomas Huckle Weller

Thomas Huckle Weller, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1915-06-15 in Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Gender: male

Field: American virologist

Biography

Thomas Huckle Weller 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.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954

Awarded on: 1954-10-21

"for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue"

Affiliations:

  • Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Medical Center – Boston, MA, USA
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