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:
- Western Reserve University – Cleveland, OH, USA
Frederick Chapman Robbins
Born: 1916-08-25 in Auburn, AL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American Nobel Prize recipient
Biography
Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School.