Jonas+Salk

Abbi W and Sam A

**Jonas Salk**


-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SalkatPitt.jpg

1. What was the contribution of this scientist? He discovered the Polio Vaccine

2. What experiment did he perform? Jonas Salk injected himself with the weakened virus of polio to make himself immune to the stronger version.

3. Did he experiment because of an accidental discovery or did he discover something accidentally? While researching the influeza virus at the medical school at NYU, Salk discovered that by injecting the weaked form of the virus into the subject, the disease could be prevented. This later became Salk's basis for the polio vaccine.

4. Did his contriubuion lead to a theory or a law? His contribution led to a law.

__RESOURCES:__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0bio-1