PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

After 1961, the American Society for Microbiology.

Founding Date:
1899

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Oswald Avery	Biologist	21-Oct-1877	20-Feb-1955	Antibodies and DNA
Jonas Salk	Scientist	28-Oct-1914	23-Jun-1995	Discoverer of the first polio vaccine
Theobald Smith	Scientist	31-Jul-1859	10-Dec-1934	Infectious and parasitic diseases
William H. Welch	Scientist	8-Apr-1850	30-Apr-1934	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Hans Zinsser	Scientist	17-Nov-1878	4-Sep-1940	Typhus vaccine

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