Jonas Salk, Byron Bennett, and Frank T. Buschek

ca. 1953

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Jonas Salk, Byron Bennett, and Frank T. Buschek

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Title
Jonas Salk, Byron Bennett, and Frank T. Buschek
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
ca. 1953
Identifier
salk0042
Source Identifier
salk0042
Description
Byron Bennett (left) and Frank T. Buschek (right) observe Jonas Salk (center) conduct a test on a lab mouse. Lab tests on mice and the kidney cells of monkeys were used to produce large scale cultures of the virus in order to create the polio vaccine. Buscheck joined the Virus Research Laboratory poliomyelitis program staff in 1953. Bennett was a research associate who prepared monkey blood and tissue samples for testing and investigated type 2 of the polio virus. Prior to joining the Pitt research team, Bennett served as a Major in the Army Medical Corps during World War 2, where he assisted in the efforts to control Typhus outbreaks during the Italian and North African campaigns.
Extent
4 x 5 in.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Physicians
Men
Salk, Jonas, 1914-1995.
Bennett, Byron.
Buschek, Frank T.
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Collection, 1917-2005
Collection
Pitt Faculty
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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