Awards & Winners

Albert Sabin

Date of Birth 26-August-1906
Place of Birth Białystok
(Poland, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Białystok Voivodeship - II RP)
Nationality United States of America, Poland
Also know as Dr. Albert Sabin, Albert Bruce Sabin, Albert Saperstein
Profession Physician, Scientist
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.

Awards by Albert Sabin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Albert Sabin.

1970


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For numerous fundamental contributions to the understanding of viruses and viral diseases, culminating in the development of the vaccine which has eliminated poliomyelitis as a major threat to human health.)

1965


Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(For the development of a live, oral poliovirus vaccine.)