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| complete name: |
Frederick Chapman Robbins |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1954 |
| together with: |
Thomas Huckle Weller |
| together with: |
John Franklin Enders |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 was awarded jointly to John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Frederick |
| family name: |
Robbins |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
virologist |
| field of work: |
virology |
| work location: |
Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States of America |
| description: |
Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller, making Robbins the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama. The award was for his breakthrough work in isolation and growth of the polio virus, paving the way for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, etc. He attended school at the University of Missouri and Harvard University. In 1952, he was appointed as Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University. Robbins was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962. From 1966 onwards, Robbins was Dean of the School of Medicine at Case Western. He led the medical school until 1980 when he assumed the Presidency of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. Five years later, in 1985, Robbins returned to Case Western Reserve as Dean Emeritus and distinguished University professor Emeritus. He continued to be a fixture at the medical school until his death in 2003. The medical school's "Frederick C. Robbins Society" is named in his honor. Robbins received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1954/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1916 |
| date death: |
2003 |
| usual name: |
Frederick Robbins |
