Paul A. Offit

Paul A. Offit

Paul Offit is Professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and the author of "You Bet Your Life" (2021).

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‘It works! It works! It works!’: Jonas Salk and the Vaccine that Conquered Polio

‘It works! It works! It works!’: Jonas Salk and the Vaccine that Conquered Polio

Jonas Salk was born on October 28th, 1914, in a tenement in East Harlem, New York—the first son of Russian immigrants and the eldest of three brothers. After finishing four years of high school in three, Salk entered the City College of New York and later won a scholarship

Paul A. Offit
Paul A. Offit
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