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Show FOLIO HALL OF FAME TO HONOR 17 I Dr. YonHe! DrWickm 'Dr.Lan Dr Dr.Arm Dr. Paul Dr. Francis Dr. Sabin Dr. Melnick j Artist's drawing of Polio Hall of Fame, Warm Springs, Go., f o be dedicated at ceremonies January 2 marking 20th anni' versary of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Dr " Dr. Bocran Dren Dr. Salk Fifteen scientists whose work spanned two continents over a period of more than a century, and two famous laymen who organized or-ganized the dramatic polio fight of the last 20 years, have been selected for membership in the Polio Hall of Fame to be established estab-lished at Georgia Warm Springs this year. Bronze busts of the 17 will be unveiled during ceremonies of the 20th anniversay of the National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, parent organization of the March of Dimes, which has sponsored polio research since 1938. One of the laymen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the first fouri of the scientists described here, are now deceased. It is expected that the remaining 12, including the other layman, Basil O'Connor O'Con-nor and Dr. Jonas E. Salk, developer de-veloper of the Salk vaccine, will be on hand with many other notables not-ables for the dedication ceremonies cere-monies next month. Here are the honored 17: Jacob von Heine First to describe de-scribe polio clearly. Author of the first book on the disease, published at Stuttgart, Germany in 1840. Oskar Medin Swedish scientist scien-tist who first recognized polio as an acute infection, in a report published in 1890 in Stockholm. Ivar Wickman Swedish pioneer pio-neer in the study of polio epidemics. epi-demics. In 1907, commented on the wide prevalence of nonparalytic non-paralytic polio. Karl Landsteiner Viennese physician, who demonstrated the polio can be transmitted to anj experimental animal, the mon-, key. Published paper on subject! in 1909. Thomas M. Rivers Dean of American virologists; chairman of the National Foundation committee com-mittee which planned the successful suc-cessful 1954 vaccine field trials. Charles Armstrong Public Health Service physician, who discovered in 1939 that certain strains of polio virus could be transmitted to cotton rats greatly great-ly simplifying some types of study. John R. Paul Yale University virologist; first virus research grantee of the National Foundation Founda-tion (1938). Contributed to the knowledge of how polio spreads. Albert B. Sabin Cincinnati University scientist and leader in the search for a live virus vaccine vac-cine for polio. Helped show how the virus reached the central nervous system. Thomas Francis, Jr. University Univer-sity of Michigan epidemiologist. Director of the evaluation of 1954-55 which demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of the Salk vaccine. Joseph L. Melnick Yale University Uni-versity scientist, now at National Institutes of Health, whose studies stud-ies of polio in many parts of the wqrld helped clarify the development de-velopment of immunity in populations popu-lations exposed to the virus. Isabel Morgan Johns Hopkins University scientist, now at Co-j lumbia University, who pre-, pared an experimental vaccine' from virus inactivated with for-; maldehyde that protected monkeys mon-keys from paralytic polio. Howard A. Howe Johns Hopkins Hop-kins scientist who was first to j show that chimpanzees can acquire ac-quire polio infection by mouth; carried out small scale expert-' ments in human beings with a formalin-treated vaccine. David Bodian Johns Hopkins scientist, whose studies showed that the virus gets into the blood stream before reaching the central nervous system and can be blocked by antibodies in the blood. John F. Enders Scientist at the Children's Medical Center, Boston, who led the way in finding find-ing how to grow polio viruses in cultures of non-nervous tissue, a big step toward production of a safe and effective vaccine in quantity. Dr. Enders and his coworkers co-workers won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Jonas E. Salk University of Pittsburgh scientist, who developed de-veloped the vaccine which bears his name. He tested the vaccine on himself and his three children chil-dren and gave it to thousands of children in the Pittsburgh area before the nationwide field trial of 1954. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Became the nation's 32nd President Presi-dent despite severe disability! caused by paralytic polio, and founded Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in 1927 and the National Na-tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1938. Basil O'Connor New York lawyer, and known as the architect ar-chitect of the fight against polio; po-lio; president of the fight against polio; president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Paral-ysis since its formation in 1938 and of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation since 1945. The busts, to be mounted on a marble wall, are the works of the noted sculptor, Edmond R. Amateis, of Brewster, N. Y. f |