Weller, Thomas Huckle, 1915-2008

Thomas Huckle Weller, 1915- , AB, 1936, University of Michigan; SM, 1937, University of Michigan; MD, 1940, Harvard Medical School, was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with John Enders and Frederick Robbins for the successful cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures, which contributed to the development of polio vaccines. Weller was Assistant Director of the Research Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass. from 1949 to 1954, when he was named Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health and Chairman of the Department at Harvard School of Public Health; he also served as Director of the Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases, at Harvard School of Public Health from 1965 to 1981. In 1953, Weller became the first American with Frederick Neva to isolate the causative virus of chicken-pox and of shingles, later proving that the two different diseases were caused by the same virus; they developed the first laboratory tests for chicken-pox and shingles.

From the description of Papers, 1960s-1970s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79025819

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