John Franklin Enders
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'''John Franklin Enders''' ([[February 10]] [[1897]] – [[September 8]] [[1985]]) was an [[United States|American]] medical scientist and [[Nobel laureate]].
Enders was born in [[West Hartford, Connecticut]] and was educated at the [[Noah Webster]] School at Hartford and [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] in [[Concord, New Hampshire]]. He then attended [[Yale University]] for a short time before entering the [[United States Air Force]] in 1918.
After returning from war he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of [[Scroll and Key]] as well as [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]], and went on to become a businessman in real estate in 1922. He tried his hand at several careers before choosing to work in the biological field studying infectious diseases, gaining a [[Ph.D.]] at [[Harvard]] in [[1930]].
In [[1954]], while working at [[Children's Hospital Boston]], Enders, [[Thomas Huckle Weller]], and [[Frederick Chapman Robbins]] were awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] "for their discovery of the ability of [[poliomyelitis]] [[viruses]] to grow in cultures of various types of tissue".
Enders died in [[1985]] in [[Waterford, Connecticut]], aged 88.
==External links==
* [http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1954/enders-bio.html Biography at Nobel Foundation website]
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