Hilary Koprowski
Hilary Koprowski was a Polish and American virologist and immunologist, and the inventor of the worlds first effective live polio vaccine. He authored or coauthored over 875 scientific papers and coedited several scientific journals. Koprowski received many academic honors and national decorations, including the Belgian Order of the Lion, the French Order of Merit and Legion of Honour, Finlands Order of the Lion, and Polands Order of Merit.
Hilary Koprowski was born in Warsaw to an educated Jewish family. His parents met in 1906 when Pawe Koprowski was serving in the Russian Army, and moved to Warsaw soon after their marriage in 1912. His mother Sonia , was a dentist from Berdichev. Hilary Koprowski attended Warsaws Mikoaj Rej Secondary School, and from age twelve he took piano lessons at the Warsaw Conservatory. He received a medical degree from Warsaw University in 1939. He also received music degrees from the Warsaw Conservatory and, in 1940, from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He adopted scientific research as his lifes work, but never gave up music and composed several musical works. In July 1938, while in medical school, Koprowski married Irena Grasberg.
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