05-07-2022, 07:26 PM
(05-07-2022, 12:01 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: What about Marie Curie and Jonas Salk. The former discovered radium; the latter mastered the polio vaccine which has, for all intents and purposes, eradicated that dreadful disease.
I'd put Jenner above Salk for his inoculation for smallpox.
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