Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the Polio vaccine, was born in New York City in 1914.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is the Director of the United States of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is the main health advisor to the President of the United States.
Dr. Robert Gallo is an American scientist who helps find the HIV virus.
Dr. Paul Ehrlich is a German immunologist and chemist known for finding a coloring method for germs and white blood cells.
Dr. David Baltimore is a US virologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1975 for his work in studying the RNA virus.
Dr. Luc Montagnier is a French virologist who together with Robert Gallo discovered the HIV virus as a cause of AIDS.
Dr. Edward Jenner was a British doctor who discovered the first vaccine for smallpox in 1796.
Dr. Maurice Hilleman is a US vaccine expert who helps develop vaccines for diseases such as rubella, hepatitis A, and B, and smallpox.
Dr. Wendell Stanley was a US biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946 for his research in the isolation and crystallization of the virus.
Dr. Ian Frazer is an Australian immunologist and virologist who helps develop vaccines for the Papilloma Human Virus (HPV).
