Awards & Winners

John Franklin Enders

Date of Birth 10-February-1897
Place of Birth West Hartford
(Hartford County, Connecticut, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Scientist, Businessperson
John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."

Awards by John Franklin Enders

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Franklin Enders.

1954


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For his achievements in the cultivation of the viruses of poliomyelitis, mumps and measles.)