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Physician who made an injectable polio vaccine — and refused to patent it.

Virologist who made the oral polio vaccine the world could swallow.

Physician who identified the hepatitis B virus and helped make a vaccine.

Microbiologist who invented the bifurcated needle that sped smallpox vaccination.

Immunologist whose mRNA work made a new class of vaccines possible.

Microbiologist who helped turn the hepatitis B discovery into a vaccine.

Pediatrician who, with Rachel Schneerson, made a conjugate vaccine against Hib.

Immunologist who co-developed the Hib conjugate vaccine.