Nobel Prize Winner Aided Polio Vaccine ; Thomas Weller, a Tropical-Medicine Specialist Whose Tissue-Culture Research in 1949 Made Development of the Salk and Sabin Polio Vaccines Possible and Won Him a Share in a Nobel Prize, has Died Aged 93.

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Thomas Weller, a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue- culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible and won him a share in a Nobel Prize, has died aged 93.

The 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mr Weller and two colleagues at Harvard, John Enders and Frederick Robbins, for their application of tissue-culture methods to the study of viral diseases. Vaccines for other viral diseases, like chicken pox and measles, also stemmed from the Enders-Robbins- Weller method.

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Nobel Prize Winner Aided Polio Vaccine ; Thomas Weller, a Tropical-Medicine Specialist Whose Tissue-Culture Research in 1949 Made Development of the Salk and Sabin Polio Vaccines Possible and Won Him a Share in a Nobel Prize, has Died Aged 93.

Mr Weller was an emeritus professor of tropical medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health, retiring from his research and teaching duties in 1980.

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