Jonas Salk, Niels Bohr, Basil O'Connor and Ernest Bohr
| Nummer | B1195 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | Jonas Salk, Niels Bohr, Basil O'Connor and Ernest Bohr at Bohr's summer house, Tisvilde, North Zealand, Denmark. |
| Bemærkning | Jonas Salk was one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century and the creator of the first polio vaccine. In 1942 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Salk became part of a group that was working to develop a vaccine against the flu. In 1947, he became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh he began research on polio. On April 12, 1955, the vaccine was released for use in the United States. He established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1963.
Basil O' Connor (1892 - 1972) graduated from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar to practice law in 1915. In 1919 O'Connor founded his own law firm in New York City, where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt and became his legal advisor. In 1924 the two men joined forces to establish their own law firm. From 1944 to 1949 O'Connor was Chairman and President of the American Red Cross and from 1945 to 1950 he was Chairman of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. In 1958 O'Connor received the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service in recognition of his efforts in the fight against polio. Ernest Bohr (1924 – 2018) was a Danish barrister and the youngest surviving son of Niels Bohr. He is named after the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford He played field hockey for Denmark in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Bohr qualified as a lawyer in 1949. Bohr was Chairman of the Board of joint stock companies Wiltax, Slagelse Dampmølle, and Øxenbjerg Dampmølle og Toldbodmøl, and a board member of A/S Møller & Landschultz and Juliet Fond. He was director of the board of the Niels Bohr Archive. |
| Årstal | 1960 |
| Dateringsnote | O' Connor and Salk were attending the 1960 International Polio Conference in Copenhagen. |
| Fotograf | Ukendt |
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| Arkiv | Niels Bohr Archive |
