John Franklin Enders 665433 209410452 2008-05-01T07:21:52Z OKBot 4559949 robot Adding: [[pl:John Franklin Enders]] '''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] {{Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates 1951-1975}} {{Time Persons of the Year 1951-1975}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Enders, John Franklin}} [[Category:1887 births]] [[Category:1985 deaths]] [[Category:American businesspeople]] [[Category:American scientists]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine]] [[Category:People from West Hartford, Connecticut]] [[Category:Poliomyelitis]] [[Category:Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] [[Category:Scroll and Key]] [[Category:St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) alumni]] [[Category:Time magazine Persons of the Year]] [[Category:Yale University alumni]] [[ar:جون إندرز]] [[ca:John Franklin Enders]] [[de:John Franklin Enders]] [[es:John Franklin Enders]] [[hr:John Franklin Enders]] [[id:John Franklin Enders]] [[it:John Franklin Enders]] [[sw:John Enders]] [[ja:ジョン・フランクリン・エンダース]] [[pl:John Franklin Enders]] [[pt:John Franklin Enders]] [[ru:Эндерс, Джон Франклин]] [[sv:John F. Enders]] [[zh:约翰·富兰克林·恩德斯]]