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enders, john franklin

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En·ders   (ěn'dərz)   
American bacteriologist. He shared a 1954 Nobel Prize for work on the cultivatiion of the polio virus.
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Enders, John Franklin

American virologist and microbiologist who, with Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas H. Weller, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1954 for his part in cultivating the poliomyelitis virus in nonnervous-tissue cultures, a preliminary step to the development of the polio vaccine.

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