Jonas Salk Net Worth

Jonas Salk net worth is
$900,000

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Jonas Edward Salk (/s??lk/; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents. Although they had little formal education, his parents were determined to see their children succeed. While attending New York University School of Medicine, Salk stood out from his peers, not just because of his academic prowess, but because he went into medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician.Until 1957, when the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States. Annual epidemics were increasingly devastating. The 1952 epidemic was the worst outbreak in the nation's history. Of nearly 58,000 cases reported that year, 3,145 people died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis, with most of its victims being children. The "public reaction was to a plague," said historian Bill O'Neal. "Citizens of urban areas were to be terrified every summer when this frightful visitor returned." According to a 2009 PBS documentary, "Apart from the atomic bomb, America's greatest fear was polio." As a result, scientists were in a frantic race to find a way to prevent or cure the disease. U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt was the world's most recognized victim of the disease and founded the organization, the March of Dimes Foundation, that would fund the development of a vaccine.In 1947, Salk accepted an appointment to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In 1948, he undertook a project funded by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to determine the number of different types of polio virus. Salk saw an opportunity to extend this project towards developing a vaccine against polio, and, together with the skilled research team he assembled, devoted himself to this work for the next seven years. The field trial set up to test the Salk vaccine was, according to O'Neill, "the most elaborate program of its kind in history, involving 20,000 physicians and public health officers, 64,000 school personnel, and 220,000 volunteers." Over 1,800,000 school children took part in the trial. When news of the vaccine's success was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker," and the day "almost became a national holiday." His sole focus had been to develop a safe and effective vaccine as rapidly as possible, with no interest in personal profit. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"In 1960, he founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, which is today a center for medical and scientific research. He continued to conduct research and publish books, including Man Unfolding (1972), The Survival of the Wisest (1973), World Population and Human Value

Full Name	Jonas Salk
Net Worth	$900,000
Date Of Birth	October 28, 1914
Died	June 23, 1995, La Jolla, California, United States
Place Of Birth	New York City, New York, USA
Profession	Physician, Biomedical scientist, Virologist
Residence	La Jolla, California
Education	New York University School of Medicine, City College of New York, New York University, Townsend Harris High School
Religion	Jewish
Nationality	American
Spouse	Françoise Gilot, Donna Lindsay
Children	Darrell Salk, Jonathan Salk, Peter Salk
Parents	Daniel Salk, Dora Salk
Siblings	Lee Salk, Herman Salk
Nicknames	Jonas Salk, Salk, Jonas
IMDB
Awards	John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding, Meritorious Service Medal
Star Sign	Scorpio

#	Quote
1	Asked who owned the patent on his vaccine: "The people, I suppose. Could you patent the sun?"

#	Fact
1	Depicted with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse of the USA's March of Dimes silver dollar commemorative coin, dated and issued in 2015.
2	On 8 March 2006, the USA issued postage stamps in the Distinguished Americans series to honor two polio vaccine researchers. A 63¢ stamp pictured Jonas Salk, and an 87¢ stamp pictured Albert Sabin.
3	Engaged in a four decade long rivalry with Dr. Albert Sabin. Sabin's live oral polio vaccine was developed at about the same time as Salk's injected killed virus vaccine, and the debate rages on over which vaccine has been more effective in combating polio in the long run.
4	Brother of Dr. Lee Salk, a distinguished specialist in neuromuscular diseases.
5	Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
6	His second wife, Françoise Gilot, was the longtime companion of Pablo Picasso.
7	Developed the polio vaccine. Salk never patented it nor earned any money from his discovery, preferring to see it distributed as widely as possible. He injected his wife, their sons and himself during the experimental stages of his vaccine.

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself (# 97)
Pablo Picasso: Réminiscences	1989	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Levin Interviews	1982	TV Series	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1971	TV Series	Himself - Dr. Salk
See It Now	1955	TV Series documentary	Himself
Taming the Crippler	1954	Documentary short	Himself (as Dr. Jonas Salk)