Frederick Robbins

FREDERICK C ROBBINS d2003. American pediatrician and virologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller) making Robbins the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama. The award was for breakthrough work in isolating and growing the poliovirus in tissue culture, paving the way for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. He died in Ohio aged 86 on August 4th 2003