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<strong>The long read</strong>: The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the whole world afraid of the atomic bomb – even those who might launch one. Today that fear has mostly passed out of living memory, and with it we may have lost a crucial safeguard
Northeast Texas–born Byron Bennett was one of four key researchers on the team that created the lifesaving vaccine, but the spotlight shone only on Jonas Salk.
At least 27 scientists with San Diego ties have won Nobel Prizes. Is there something in the water?
TAt least 27 scientists who do, or did, work here won the prize
Will Maguire is a writer and songwriter living in East Nashville. In 1952 a polio epidemic hit the United States. A devastating disease, polio had no known cure and often led to either death or paralysis. That year just over 3,100 Americans succumbed to polio. In 1954 an experimental vaccine was developed. The Salk vaccine, untested by the Food and Drug Administration, was used to inoculate most of the country. And a lethal disease was halted by the American people acting in concert with cutting-edge science. Today the United States is facing another epidemic. COVID-19 has snuffed out ...