Hilary Koprowski: Koprowski

Albert Sabin Dept: PHILADELPHIA Dr. Hilary Koprowski, the Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at his Philadelphia home. He was 96, according to The Chronicle Herald. Koprowski son, Christopher, said Saturday his father liked the scientific recognition his work received without the celebrity of Salk and Sabin and Although not as well-known as fellow researchers Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, Koprowski in 1950 became the first to show it was possible to vaccinate against polio, the crippling and sometimes fatal disease that now all but eradicated. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.