Salk

[ sawk, sawlk ]

noun

1. Jonas E(dward), 1914–95, U.S. bacteriologist: developed Salk vaccine.

Salk

/ sɔːlk /

noun

1. SalkJonas Edward19141995MUSSCIENCE: virologist Jonas Edward. 1914–95, US virologist: developed an injected vaccine against poliomyelitis (1954)

Salk

/ sôlk /

1. American microbiologist who in 1954 developed the first effective vaccine against polio, using an inactivated form of the virus. Salk's vaccine, which was administered by injection, was widely used until 1959 when Albert Sabin introduced an orally administered vaccine derived from a live form of the virus.

Example Sentences

Prominent voices, including that of Salk’s rival Albert Sabin, publicly questioned the safety of the vaccine.

From Time

The height of the US polio epidemic was in the 1950s, just before Salk’s vaccine came out, and there was no cure and no understanding of how to prevent it.

From Popular-Science

Despite an advanced degree and prestigious publication record, Vogt did not become a professor or get her own lab at Salk until after Dulbecco left the institute in 1972.

From Science News

Alejandro Ocampo, who used to work in Izpisúa Belmonte’s Salk lab, and is now a professor at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, is skeptical that reprogramming technology is ready to turn into medicine any time soon.

From MIT Technology Review

The results of this work—mostly done just before Belmonte’s labs at Salk were locked down due to the pandemic from March to June—were published in Cell on April 15.

From Time

(The Sabin versus Salk debate is one of the great arguments in modern medical history and will not be recapitulated here).

From The Daily Beast

As Jonas Salk once said, when asked about patenting the polio vaccine: Can you patent the sun, too?

From The Daily Beast

If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine; like Jenner, Pasteur, and Salk.

From Project Gutenberg