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“I wish this had never happened to me”: Jonas Salk cured polio, only to be shunned by science
Jealous peers mocked him. His polio vaccine saved countless lives, but never won Nobel. Science is so high school
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Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
I did as well. It's sort of like what happened to Turning,but he ended up WAY worse.
Sounds like he was amazingly humble despite all of this. I have heard of this before... "popular" scientists, like Carl Sagan, have kind of a stigma in the scientific community where they aren't taken as seriously as they were before.