Vaccine Discoverer Crossword Clue

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	noun • United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914)
	36%	5		Discoverer of a polio vaccine
	noun • United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906) • a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound
	33%	11		His vaccine replaced the original Salk vaccine for polio
	noun • United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)

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New York Times23 Nov 1979	Down 42
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