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John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

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John Franklin Enders

American medical researcher (1897-1985)

John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist and Nobel Laureate. Enders has been called "The Father of Modern Vaccines."
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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September 8

Day of the year

September 8 is the 251st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 114 days remain until the end of the year.
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