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  Thomas Huckle Weller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Huckle Weller (born June 15, 1915) was an American virologist.
He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in the test tube.
Thomas Huckle Weller MD: Nobel Laureate and research pioneer in poliomyelitis, varicella-zoster virus, cytomegalovirus, rubella, and other infectious diseases.
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 Weller, Thomas Huckle - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Weller, Thomas Huckle
In developing new ways of growing and studying the poliomyelitis virus in culture, Weller laid the groundwork for the later development of a vaccine.
Weller went on to study the role of a single virus in chickenpox and shingles and to show that a single micro-organism was involved in German measles.
Weller was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan in zoology in 1936.
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 Thomas H. Weller - Biography
Thomas Huckle Weller was born at Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 15th, 1915.
The course of much of Weller's later work was, nevertheless, influenced by the fact that he was accepted, in 1939, as a tutorial student by Dr. J.
In his researches, Weller was interested, partly in the helminth parasites of man, and partly in virology.
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Thomas Huckle Weller was born on June 15, 1915, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father was chairman of the pathology department at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Weller did research under John Enders, who was then studying methods of growing animal cells outside the body.
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He was appointed assistant director of Enders' infectious diseases laboratory at the Children's Medical Center, Boston (1949-55), and, working with Enders and Robbins, soon achieved the propagation of poliomyelitis virus in laboratory suspensions of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue.
He was also the first (with the American physician Franklin Neva) to achieve the laboratory propagation of rubella (German measles) virus and to isolate chicken pox virus from human cell cultures.
Weller became professor of tropical public health at Harvard University in 1954 and from 1966 to 1981 served also as director of the Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Harvard University School of Public Health.
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 Thomas Huckle Weller - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Thomas Huckle Weller - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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Thomas Huckle Weller, Further reading, 1915 births and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners.
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Weller, Thomas Huckle (1915-) From Eric Weisstein's World Of weller, thomas huckle (1915), Shared the 1954 nobel Prize in medicine withEnders and Robbins.
In 1948, due largely to cell-culture methods refined by Weller, the Children's Hospital laboratory team succeeded in growing polio in human cells that were not derived from the nervous system.
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He is further known for his contributions in fields including psychology, mathematics, statistics, and operations research, all of which he synthesized in a key theory for which he won the 1978 Nobel Prize for economics.
Thomas Huckle Weller was an American physician and virologist who was the corecipient (with John Enders and Frederick Robbins) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for the successful cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in tissue cultures.
This made it possible to study the virus "in the test tube," a procedure that led to the development of polio vaccines.
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Thomas M. Rivers (1888 - 1962) (5), Dean of American virologists; chairman of the National Foundation committee which planned the successful 1954 vaccine field trials
Charles Armstrong (6), Public Health Service physician who discovered in 1939 that certain strains of polio viruses could be transmitted to cotton rats, greatly simplifying some types of study.
In recognition of this achievement Enders and his co-workers Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins won the
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 The Cultivation of the Poliomyelitis Viruses in Tissue Culture. The Nobel Lecture December 1954. (Les Prix Nobel En ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ENDERS, JOHN FRANKLIN, FREDERICK CHAPMAN ROBBINS AND THOMAS HUCKLE WELLER (SIGNED).
Thomas H. Weller (1915-) shared the Nobel Prize with Frederick Robbins and John Enders for "Their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissues".
This was the critical step that, once achieved, led rapidly to the development of vaccine against poliomyelitis by Dr. Salk and then Dr. Sabin.
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 Growing Pathogens in Tissue Cultures: Fifty Years in Academic Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics, and Virology
This is the autobiography of Thomas H. Weller, M. D., a research scientist who helped develop the technique of growing viruses in tissue culture, and who became a world leader in the study of tropical diseases.
It led to the identification of many new infectious agents...several of which were discovered by Weller...and led to the development of many viral vaccines, starting with the Salk and Sabin vaccines.
In 1954, Weller shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with Drs.
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 Thomas Huckle Weller Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Thomas Huckle Weller Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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 FREDERICK C. ROBBINS - ANNOTATED FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED 07/26/1982 CO-SIGNED BY:THOMAS HUCKLE WELLER , JOHN FRANKLIN ...
From the December 10, 1954, presentation speech of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: "Dr.
John Enders, Dr. Frederick Robbins, Dr. Thomas Weller.
Karolinska Institutet has decided to award you jointly the Nobel Prize for your discovery of the capacity of the poliomyelitis virus to grow in test-tube cultures of various tissues.
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 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Health / Science / Local winners and affiliations
Following are the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology and Medicine affiliated with local universities:
Thomas Huckle Weller, 1954, Physiology or Medicine (shared award): "For their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue."
William N. Lipscomb, 1976, Chemistry: "For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding."
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 Books by Thomas Huckle Weller - Book Cost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Books by Thomas Huckle Weller - Book Cost
Thomas Huckle Weller - Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
Thomas Huckle Weller - National Academy of Sciences
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 AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: THOMAS H. WELLER - BIOGRAPHY SIGNED
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In part: "Thomas Huckle Weller, U.S. physician and parasitologist, shared with J.F. Enders and F.C. Robbins the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine in 1954 for cultivation of the poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture...." Lightly creased.
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