Jan. 27 book launching kicks off series of Pitt events celebrating 50th anniversary of Salk vaccine
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On April 9, 1955, three days before the Salk polio vaccine was publicly declared to be “safe, effective, and potent,” news reporters were briefed at Pittsburgh Municipal Hospital (now Salk Hall), where Jonas Salk’s Virus Research Laboratory was located. Laboratory team members, standing left to right: Research Associate Percival L. Bazeley, Salk, Research Associate Byron L. Bennett, Senior Scientist Julius Youngner, and Research Associate L. James Lewis.