(ENDERS, JOHN FRANKLIN) POLIOMYELITIS. Geneva, World Health Organization, 1955. 24 cm. 408 pp. Illustrated. ¶ First edition. Contributions by Robert Debré, Darline Duncan, John F. Enders, Matthieu-Jean Freyche, Sven Gard, James Gear, W. McD. Hammon, Hilary Koprowski, H. C. A. Lassen, Johannes Nielsen, John R. Paul, and others. World Health Organization, Monograph series, 26.
Includes John F. Enders' The presnt status of tissue-culture techniques in the study of the poliomyelitis viruses, pp. 269-94.
In 1954, John F. Enders, together with Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiokogy or Medicine "for his discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".Publisher's cloth, hinges weak. Signed by John F. Enders on front free endpaper.
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