Hilary Koprowski

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What Wikipedia says

Hilary Koprowski (5 December 1916 – 11 April 2013) was a Polish virologist and immunologist. He was the first scientist to produce attenuated poliovirus and to conduct large-scale clinical research studies of an oral polio vaccine.

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