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Jonas Salk: A Life

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

The first full biography of Jonas Salk offers a complete picture of the enigmatic figure, from his early years working on an influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit--to his seminal creation of the Polio vaccine, up through his later work to find a cure for AIDS.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyGoogle Books: Medical -> Medicine & Public HealthAward Category: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography -> BiographyScientific Biography

Award History

0 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyMajor2015FinalistSecondary source
PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography2016Honorable mentionOfficial source
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    • Jonas Salk90%

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

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