About Albert Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Sabin's first clinical trials were carried out at the Chillicothe Ohio Reformatory in late 1954. The first industrial production and mass use of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) from Sabin strains was organized by Soviet scientist Mikhail Chumakov. The mass immunization techniques that Sabin pioneered with his associates effectively eradicated polio in Cincinnati. Albert Bruce Sabin ( SAY-bin; born Abram Saperstejn; August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease.
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