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PBS
Pbs Teachers: Making Vaccines
Examine how vaccines generate immune responses against pathogens in the body by creating six vaccines in this virtual laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Jonas Salk
Read about Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. This article from the MIT Invention Dimension includes several links to further information on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Salk Institute for...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: History of Vaccines
Illustrated overview of the history of vaccines and inoculations against diseases, such as smallpox and polio.
Other
Jewish American Hall of Fame: Jonas Salk (1914 1995)
A short biography of Jonas Salk, one of the men to invent a polio vaccine.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Albert Sabin
A very brief yet informative look at the life of Dr. Albert Sabin. Discusses his work and research with the polio vaccine.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Jonas Salk
A biography of Jonas Salk, the man who saved thousands of lives by discovering a vaccine for polio. (In Spanish)
American Chemical Society
The Pharmaceutical Century: The 1950s
This extensive review of the advances in medical research and technology in the 1950s credits the Cold War and Cold War thinking with promoting scientific research and government funding of that research, including medical issues. Find...
Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery: Albert Bruce Sabin
This site from the Arlington National Cemetery contains a brief biography of Dr. Sabin, mentioning some little known facts about his life. Includes several pictures of the gravesite as well as links to additional information.