Title Jonas Salk : medical innovator and polio vaccine developer / by Sheila Llanas.

Publication Info.	Minneapolis, MN : ABDO Publishing Company, [2014]
	©2014

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Description	1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Series	Essential Lives
	Essential lives.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-109) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Chapter 1. On the verge of a breakthrough -- chapter 2. A driven student -- chapter 3. Medical school -- chapter 4. Budding virologist -- chapter 5. A lab of his own -- chapter 6. Testing the vaccine -- chapter 7. Breaking news -- chapter 8. Leaps and setbacks -- chapter 9. Building a dream.
Summary	This biography examines the remarkable life of Jonas Salk. Readers will learn about Salk's family background, childhood, education, groundbreaking research, and creation of the polio vaccine.
Subject	Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995.
	Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995.
	Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995. (OCoLC)fst00005534
	Virologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Poliomyelitis vaccine -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Virologists.
	Polio vaccine.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
	SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
	SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
	Poliomyelitis vaccine. (OCoLC)fst01068849
	Virologists. (OCoLC)fst01167669
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Other Form:	Print version: Llanas, Sheila Griffin, 1958- Jonas Salk 9781617838965 (OCoLC)832285083
ISBN	9781624011665 (electronic bk.)
	1624011667 (electronic bk.)

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