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Jonas Salk, M.D., was a celebrated American researcher, best known as the developer of the first polio vaccine (the eponymous Salk vaccine).

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In his later career, Salk devoted much of his time and energy to developing an AIDS vaccine.

Achievement out of humble beginnings Jonas Edward Salk was born in New York City to poor Jewish-Russian immigrants, Dora and Daniel B.

Salk. His mother was a homemaker with little education, and his father was a ladies clothing designer. Jonas was the eldest of three sons. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1936 and went on to study at the College of Medicine at New York University.

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He received his medical degree in 1939.

Married life At the college, Salk met his future wife, Donna, and they were married in June 1939, shortly after he received his medical degree. They had three sons, then in 1968, Jonas and Donna were divorced.

He was remarried in 1970, to Françoise Gilot.

On the road to a vaccine Salk first worked at