Thomas Huckle Weller

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Thomas Huckle Weller (born June 15, 1915 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ; died August 23, 2008 in Needham , Massachusetts ) was an American bacteriologist , virologist, and parasitologist .

Thomas H. Weller studied medical zoology at the University of Michigan until 1937 and then did research at the Harvard Medical School Boston. In 1939 he became an assistant to John Franklin Enders . In 1940 he received his doctorate in medicine. He then began his clinical training at Childrens's Hospital Boston, where he set up a research department for infectious diseases with Enders from 1947.

Weller was able to isolate the cause of the rubella .

For discovering the ability of the poliomyelitis virus to grow in cultures of different tissue types , Weller received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 together with Frederick Chapman Robbins and John Franklin Enders . In 1955 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1964 to the National Academy of Sciences .

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