Frederick Chapman Robbins

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Frederick Chapman Robbins
Frederick Chapman Robbins
Born	August 25, 1916 (1916-08-25)
Died	August 4, 2003 (aged 86)
Nationality	American
Fields	Pediatrics Virology
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1954)

Frederick Chapman Robbins (August 25, 1916 – August 4, 2003) was an American pediatrician and virologist.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller. The award was for his breakthrough work in isolation and growth of the polio virus, paving the way for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk, Florence R. Sabin, etc. He attended school at the University of Missouri and Harvard University

[edit] References

• Zetterström, Rolf; Lagercrantz Hugo (Sep 2006). J.F. Enders (1897-1985), T.H. Weller (1915-) and F.C. Robbins (1916-2003): a simplified method for the multiplication of poliomyelitis virus. Dreams of eradicating a terrifying disease. Acta Paediatr. 95 (9): 1026-8. doi:10.1080/08035250600900073. PMID 16938745. 
• The Abraham Flexner Award for distinguished service to medical education. Frederick C. Robbins, M.D (Feb 1988). Journal of medical education 63 (2): 121-2. PMID 3276892. 
• Bendiner, E (Jan 1982). Enders, Weller, and Robbins: the trio that 'fished in troubled waters'. Hosp. Pract. (Off. Ed.) 17 (1): 163, 169, 174-5 passim. PMID 6295913. 
• Marshall, E (Mar 1980). Institute of Medicine names Robbins president. Science 207 (4436): 1184-5. PMID 6986655. 
• Sulek, K (Dec 1968). [Nobel prizes for John F. Enders, Frederick Ch, Robbins and Thomas H. Weller in 1954 for discovery of the possibility of growing poliomyelitis virus on various tissue media]. Wiad. Lek. 21 (24): 2301-3. PMID 4303387. 

[edit] Further reading

• Robbins's Nobel biography

v • d • e Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine Max Theiler (1951) · Selman Waksman (1952) · Hans Krebs / Fritz Lipmann (1953) · John Enders / Thomas Weller / Frederick Robbins (1954) · Hugo Theorell (1955) · André Cournand / Werner Forssmann / Dickinson W. Richards (1956) · Daniel Bovet (1957) · George Beadle / Edward Tatum / Joshua Lederberg (1958) · Severo Ochoa / Arthur Kornberg (1959) · Frank Burnet / Peter Medawar (1960) · Georg von Békésy (1961) · Francis Crick / James D. Watson / Maurice Wilkins (1962) · John Eccles / Alan Hodgkin / Andrew Huxley (1963) · Konrad Bloch / Feodor Lynen (1964) · François Jacob / André Lwoff / Jacques Monod (1965) · Francis Rous / Charles B. Huggins (1966) · Ragnar Granit / Haldan Hartline / George Wald (1967) · Robert W. Holley / Har Khorana / Marshall Nirenberg (1968) · Max Delbrück / Alfred Hershey / Salvador Luria (1969) · Bernard Katz / Ulf von Euler / Julius Axelrod (1970) · Earl Sutherland Jr. (1971) · Gerald Edelman / Rodney Porter (1972) · Karl von Frisch / Konrad Lorenz / Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973) · Albert Claude / Christian de Duve / George Palade (1974) · David Baltimore / Renato Dulbecco / Howard Temin (1975) Complete roster · 1901–1925 · 1926–1950 · 1951–1975 · 1976–2000 · 2001–present

Persondata
NAME	Robbins, Frederick Chapman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH	August 4, 2003
PLACE OF DEATH