Why does Jonas Salk get the credit when two of his peers got the nobel peace prize, and how his co-workers said he wouldn't give other's credit?
Didn't salk "lose" the original manual script after he brought it home to "study it" & managed to make a copy of it by memory?
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>Salk then attacked Francis' findings and insisted his potion might have been 100 percent effective if
>He wasn't very generous in acknowledging his co-workers, to put it in the most kind fashion,
Francis had led crucial field tests of it using scientific methods that were uncommonly exquisite at that time. The vaccine was 70 percent effective against the main polio strain and 90 percent against two others, he reported.
That infuriated Salk, a diminutive, sharp-tongued man "who felt compelled to insist that he had created nothing less than the perfect vaccine," Dr. Howard Markel wrote in an article in the April 7 New England Journal of Medicine. Markel is director of the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine.
Salk then attacked Francis' findings and insisted his potion might have been 100 percent effective if the government hadn't insisted on adding an antiseptic to it. In his fury, he never mentioned all the work done by his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, who sat dumbfounded in the audience.
Nor did he credit Harvard researchers John Enders, Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, who enabled the vaccine to be mass-produced by finding a way to grow it in monkey kidney tissue.
"He wasn't very generous in acknowledging his co-workers, to put it in the most kind fashion," said Dr. Julius S. Youngner, who worked with Salk in Pittsburgh and is the only surviving scientist of the core research team. "He made the world think that he had done it all by himself and made everyone else anonymous."
https://archive.is/veekB
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/salk-took-credit-but-others-helped-develop-vaccine/article_c52834a6-c675-5fa6-8403-c9e1b737d5bb.html
Didn't salk "lose" the original manual script after he brought it home to "study it" & managed to make a copy of it by memory?
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>Salk then attacked Francis' findings and insisted his potion might have been 100 percent effective if
>He wasn't very generous in acknowledging his co-workers, to put it in the most kind fashion,
Francis had led crucial field tests of it using scientific methods that were uncommonly exquisite at that time. The vaccine was 70 percent effective against the main polio strain and 90 percent against two others, he reported.
That infuriated Salk, a diminutive, sharp-tongued man "who felt compelled to insist that he had created nothing less than the perfect vaccine," Dr. Howard Markel wrote in an article in the April 7 New England Journal of Medicine. Markel is director of the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine.
Salk then attacked Francis' findings and insisted his potion might have been 100 percent effective if the government hadn't insisted on adding an antiseptic to it. In his fury, he never mentioned all the work done by his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, who sat dumbfounded in the audience.
Nor did he credit Harvard researchers John Enders, Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, who enabled the vaccine to be mass-produced by finding a way to grow it in monkey kidney tissue.
"He wasn't very generous in acknowledging his co-workers, to put it in the most kind fashion," said Dr. Julius S. Youngner, who worked with Salk in Pittsburgh and is the only surviving scientist of the core research team. "He made the world think that he had done it all by himself and made everyone else anonymous."
https://archive.is/veekB
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/salk-took-credit-but-others-helped-develop-vaccine/article_c52834a6-c675-5fa6-8403-c9e1b737d5bb.html
